Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 112
Then the nobleman took out his purse, it was a real nobleman's purse, with a little sack in the middle of it to hold small change.
Who acts: nobleman · What happens: take out, be, hold · To what, where: purse, small change
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 nobleman | det |
| 3 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 took | compound:prt |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 purse | nmod:poss |
| 7 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 purse | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 purse | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 purse | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 nobleman | det |
| 12 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 nobleman | amod |
| 13 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 purse | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 nobleman | case |
| 15 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sack | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 sack | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 sack | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sack | amod |
| 20 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | parataxis |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 middle | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 middle | det |
| 23 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sack | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 middle | nmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 hold | mark |
| 27 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 sack | acl |
| 28 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 change | amod |
| 29 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hold | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | past | the nobleman | man's purse | then | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | nobleman | a real nobleman's purse | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hold | to-infinitive | the nobleman not said here | small change | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Theme |
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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