Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 21
Then he let her go, and she went with him to a cave that was on that mountain, and drew from the depths of it some healing and life-giving water, and brought his brother back to life again, but it was as much as she could do, for she was half dead herself.
Who acts: brother, master, cave, life · What happens: let, go, be, draw, give, bring back · To what, where: master, cave, mountain, healing, depths, brother
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 (brother, master, cave, life), 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 | 3 let | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 let | nsubj |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 cave | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cave | det |
| 14 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 mountain | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 mountain | cop |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 mountain | case |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 mountain | det |
| 19 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cave | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 drew | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 drew | cc |
| 22 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | conj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 depths | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 depths | det |
| 25 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 drew | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 depths | nmod |
| 28 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 healing | det |
| 29 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 drew | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 water | cc |
| 31 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 giving | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 life | punct |
| 33 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 water | amod |
| 34 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 healing | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 brought | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 brought | cc |
| 37 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | conj |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 brother | nmod:poss |
| 39 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 brought | obj |
| 40 | back | back | ADV | _ | 37 brought | advmod |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 life | case |
| 42 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 brought | obl |
| 43 | again | again | ADV | _ | 37 brought | advmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 much | punct |
| 45 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 49 much | cc |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 much | nsubj |
| 47 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 much | cop |
| 48 | as | as | ADV | _ | 49 much | advmod |
| 49 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 let | obj |
| 50 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 53 do | mark |
| 51 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 do | nsubj |
| 52 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 53 do | aux |
| 53 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 49 much | acl |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 dead | punct |
| 55 | for | for | ADP | _ | 59 dead | case |
| 56 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 59 dead | nsubj |
| 57 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 59 dead | cop |
| 58 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 59 dead | advmod |
| 59 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 do | advcl |
| 60 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 59 dead | nsubj |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | brother | master | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | infinitive | master not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past | master | a cave | with brother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cave=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | is | past | a cave | that mountain | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | draw | past | brother not said here | some healing and giving water | the depths of mountain | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent healing=Theme from depth=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | give | gerund | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 7 | bring back | past | brother not said here | brother's brother | life | again | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent brother=Theme to life=Destination | ||
| 8 | is | past | life | much property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | do | could | master | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | is | past | master | dead, half 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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