Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 89
As they went along the road together they fell a-talking, and his father asked him how he had fared at Oh's.
Who acts: father, son · What happens: go, fall, ask, fare · To what, where: road, talking, son · 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, son), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fell | advcl |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 6 road | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 road | det |
| 6 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fell | nsubj |
| 9 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 talking | det |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 a | punct |
| 12 | talking | talking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fell | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 asked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 asked | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 father | nmod:poss |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 asked | nsubj |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fell | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 asked | iobj |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 fared | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fared | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 fared | aux |
| 22 | fared | fare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 asked | ccomp |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 Oh | case |
| 24 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 22 fared | discourse |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 Oh | case |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | father | the road | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along road=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | fall | past | father | a talking | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient talking=Result | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | son's father | son | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | fare | past · perfect | son | 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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