Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 43

The nixies then brought him some food, and that also was green, and he ate of it. "

Who acts: nixies, that, last · What happens: bring, be, eat · To what, where: food, last

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 (nixies, that, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 nixies	det
2	nixies	nixy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 brought	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 brought	advmod
4	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 brought	obj
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 food	det
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brought	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 green	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 green	cc
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 green	nsubj
11	also	also	ADV	_	13 green	advmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 green	cop
13	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brought	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ate	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ate	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ate	nsubj
17	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brought	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ate	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 ate	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	the nixies	some food	last	then		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination food=Theme
2	is	past	that				green property	tree rules
3	eat	past	last				of food	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of it=Source

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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