Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 136

Then he came to his right mind, and cried aloud that they should bring in lights, and he saw that his faithful wife was quite an old woman.

Who acts: husband, WIVES, faithful wife · What happens: come, cry, bring in, see, be, mind · To what, where: right mind, lights, old woman

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 (husband, WIVES, faithful wife), 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 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 mind	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mind	nmod:poss
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mind	amod
7	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cried	cc
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
11	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	10 cried	advmod
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 bring	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bring	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 bring	aux
15	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cried	advcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	15 bring	compound:prt
17	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 bring	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saw	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 saw	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 saw	nsubj
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 woman	mark
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 wife	nmod:poss
24	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 wife	amod
25	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 woman	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 woman	cop
27	quite	quite	ADV	_	30 woman	advmod
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 woman	det
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 woman	amod
30	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saw	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	husband		husband's right mind	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mind=Initial_Location
2	cry speech: express	past	husband not said here				aloud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bring in	should	WIVES = wife	lights				vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme light=Asset
4	see	past	husband					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	past	husband's faithful wife	a old woman				tree rules
6	mind		husband					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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