Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 104

So the old man told the nobleman his whole story, and the nobleman was full of compassion for the old man. "

Who acts: old man, nobleman · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: whole story, nobleman · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (old man, nobleman), 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	_	5 told	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 nobleman	det
7	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	iobj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 story	nmod:poss
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 story	amod
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 full	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 full	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 nobleman	det
14	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 full	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 full	cop
16	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 told	parataxis
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 compassion	case
18	compassion	compassion	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 full	obl
19	for	for	ADP	_	22 man	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 man	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 man	amod
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 full	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 full	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 full	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the old man	man's whole story	the nobleman				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent nobleman=Recipient story=Topic
2	is	past	the nobleman					of compassion; for the old man; full property	tree rules

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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