Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 102

I have four sons, thank God, and all four have houses of their own, and yet they send their poor old father to school to learn!

Who acts: I, four sons, four, houses · What happens: have, thank, send, learn · To what, where: four sons, God, houses, poor old father, school

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 (I, four sons, four, houses), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sons	nummod
4	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thank	punct
6	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sons	acl:relcl
7	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 thank	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 have	cc
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 four	det
11	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
13	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 have	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 own	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 own	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 houses	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 send	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 send	cc
19	yet	yet	ADV	_	21 send	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 send	nsubj
21	send	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	parataxis
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 father	nmod:poss
23	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 father	amod
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 father	amod
25	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 send	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 school	case
27	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 send	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 learn	mark
29	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 send	advcl
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	present	I	four sons				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
2	thank speech: thank	present	four sons not said here		God			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme
3	have	present	all four	houses of houses's own				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient
4	send	present	houses = house	houses's poor old father		school	yet	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent father=Theme to school=Destination
5	learn	to-infinitive	houses = house not said here					vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: 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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