Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 111

So the nobleman comforted the old man, and the old man began to be merry.

Who acts: nobleman, old man · What happens: comfort, begin, be · To what, where: old man

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 (nobleman, old man), 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	_	4 comforted	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nobleman	det
3	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comforted	nsubj
4	comforted	comfort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comforted	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 began	nsubj
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 comforted	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	16 merry	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 merry	cop
16	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 began	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 comforted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	comfort	past	the nobleman	the old man		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer
2	begin	past	the old man			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is	to-infinitive	the old man not said here		merry 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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