Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 1

There was once upon a time a King who had two sons, and these sons went a-hunting in the forest and there lost themselves.

Who acts: time, sons · What happens: be, have, go, lose · To what, where: two sons, hunting, forest, sons

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, sons), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 time	appos
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 time	acl:relcl
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 sons	nummod
12	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 went	cc
15	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 sons	det
16	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hunting	det
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 a	punct
20	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 went	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 forest	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 forest	det
23	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 went	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 lost	cc
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 lost	expl
26	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 went	conj
27	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 lost	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past			there	time	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a time	two sons				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	go	past	this sons	a hunting	the forest			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hunting=Theme
4	lose	past	this sons not said here	sons = son	there			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Eventuality

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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