Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 91

Then the father told the son what he had suffered, and it was the son's turn to listen.

Who acts: father, son, talking · What happens: tell, suffer, be, listen · To what, where: son, turn · 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, talking), 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	4 told	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 father	det
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 son	det
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	iobj
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 told	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 suffered	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 suffered	aux
10	suffered	suffer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 what	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 turn	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 turn	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 turn	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 turn	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 son	det
16	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 turn	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 son	case
18	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 listen	mark
20	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 turn	acl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the father		the son	then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent son=Recipient what=Topic
2	suffer	past · perfect	son				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	talking	the son's turn			tree rules
4	listen	to-infinitive	the father not said here				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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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