Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 62
He could not pick out his son. "
Who acts: name · What happens: not pick out · To what, where: son
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 (name), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pick | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 pick | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 pick | advmod |
| 4 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 pick | compound:prt |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pick | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pick | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 pick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pick out | could | name | name's son | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
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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