Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 73

He went on and on till there met him an old man all as white as milk, and the raiment of this old man was glistening white. "

Who acts: son, raiment · What happens: go, meet, glisten · 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 (son, raiment), 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	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 on	cc
5	on	on	ADV	_	3 on	conj
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 met	mark
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 met	advmod
8	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 met	obj
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 met	obj
13	all	all	ADV	_	15 white	advmod
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 white	advmod
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
16	as	as	ADP	_	17 milk	case
17	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 white	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 glistening	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 glistening	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 raiment	det
21	raiment	raiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 glistening	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 man	case
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 man	det
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 man	amod
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 raiment	nmod
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 glistening	aux
27	glistening	glisten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 went	advcl
28	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 glistening	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 glistening	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 glistening	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	son				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	past	son not said here	son	there		tree rules
3	glisten	past · progressive	the raiment of this old man			white property	vn light_emission-43.1 «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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