Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 133

And his first wife came and immediately began to kiss him on the head, but he said nothing.

Who acts: first wife, husband · What happens: come, begin, kiss, say · To what, where: husband, head, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first wife, husband), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 came	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 wife	amod
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 began	cc
7	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	8 began	advmod
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 kiss	mark
10	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	xcomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kiss	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 head	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 head	det
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kiss	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 said	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	husband's first wife				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	husband's first wife not said here			immediately property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	kiss	to-infinitive	husband's first wife not said here	husband	the head		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	husband	nothing			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

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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