Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 32

They went through this forest, but in a short time they grew very tired, and when they came to a path leading to a clearing full of large tree-stumps, the father said, "I am so tired out that I will rest here a little," and with that he sat down on a tree-stump and cried, "Oh, how tired I am!"

Who acts: father, path, last · What happens: go, grow, come, lead, clear, say · To what, where: forest, path, little, tree stump · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, path, last), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 forest	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 forest	det
5	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grew	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 grew	cc
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 time	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 time	det
10	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grew	obl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 grew	nsubj
13	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 tired	advmod
15	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 grew	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 came	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 came	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 path	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 path	det
23	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	obl
24	leading	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 path	acl
25	to	to	SCONJ	_	27 clearing	mark
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 clearing	det
27	clearing	clear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 leading	advcl
28	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 clearing	xcomp
29	of	of	ADP	_	33 stumps	case
30	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 stumps	amod
31	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stumps	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 tree	punct
33	stumps	stump	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 full	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 said	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 father	det
36	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 said	nsubj
37	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 stumps	parataxis
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 tired	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 tired	punct
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 tired	nsubj
41	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 tired	cop
42	so	so	ADV	_	43 tired	advmod
43	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 said	ccomp
44	out	out	ADP	_	48 rest	mark
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 rest	mark
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 rest	nsubj
47	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 rest	aux
48	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 tired	advcl
49	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	48 rest	advmod
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 little	det
51	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 rest	obl:unmarked
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 rest	punct
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 tired	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 sat	cc
55	with	with	SCONJ	_	58 sat	mark
56	that	that	SCONJ	_	58 sat	mark
57	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 sat	nsubj
58	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 said	conj
59	down	down	ADP	_	58 sat	compound:prt
60	on	on	ADP	_	64 stump	case
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	64 stump	det
62	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 stump	compound
63	-	-	PUNCT	_	62 tree	punct
64	stump	stump	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 sat	obl
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 cried	cc
66	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 sat	conj
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 tired	punct
68	"	"	PUNCT	_	72 tired	punct
69	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	72 tired	discourse
70	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 tired	punct
71	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	72 tired	advmod
72	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 cried	parataxis
73	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	72 tired	nsubj
74	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	72 tired	cop
75	!	!	PUNCT	_	58 sat	punct
76	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	father		this forest			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through forest=Initial_Location
2	grow	past	father			time	tired property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	father		a path			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to path=Initial_Location
4	lead	gerund	a path not said here					vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
5	clear	gerund	a path not said here				full property	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source
6	say speech: assert	past	the father					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is in a quote	present	the father = father				tired property	tree rules
8	rest in a quote	future	the father = father	a little	here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	sit down	past	last		a tree stump			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stump=Location
10	cry speech: express	past	last not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
11	is in a quote	present	last				tired property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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