Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Origin of the Mole, sentence 13

So the rich man's son became a mole on the spot, and that is why the mole always flies the light of day.

Who acts: son, that, mole · What happens: become, be, fly, light · To what, where: mole, light, day

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Origin of the Mole. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, that, mole), 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 became	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 son	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 man	case
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 became	nsubj
7	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mole	det
9	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 became	xcomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 spot	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 spot	det
12	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mole	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 why	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 why	cc
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 why	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 why	cop
17	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 became	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mole	det
19	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flies	nsubj
20	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	21 flies	advmod
21	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 why	advcl:relcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 light	det
23	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flies	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 day	case
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 light	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	become	past	the rich man's son	a mole on the spot		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	that		why property	tree rules
3	fly	present	the mole	the light of day	always property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location light=Theme
4	light			day		nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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