Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 68

Then he took him to a sheep-pen, and there were rows and rows of rams, and one ram was just like another.

Who acts: son, rows · What happens: take, be · To what, where: name

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 (son, rows), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 pen	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pen	det
7	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pen	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 sheep	punct
9	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 were	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 were	cc
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 were	expl
13	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
14	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 were	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 rows	cc
16	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 rows	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 rams	case
18	rams	ram	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 rows	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 another	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 another	cc
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 ram	nummod
22	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 another	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 another	cop
24	just	just	ADV	_	26 another	advmod
25	like	like	ADP	_	26 another	case
26	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 took	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	son		name		then	to a sheep pen	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2	be	past	rows and rows of rams			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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