Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 25

Then they left that place and when they had gone a little distance, the elder brother bowed to the ground and went on his way alone.

Who acts: Tsar · What happens: leave, go, bow · To what, where: little distance, elder brother, way

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 (Tsar), 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 left	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 left	nsubj
3	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 place	mark
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 left	advcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gone	cc
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 gone	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gone	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	aux
10	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 left	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 distance	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 distance	amod
13	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gone	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 brother	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 brother	det
16	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 brother	amod
17	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 distance	conj
18	bowed	bow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 brother	acl
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 ground	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ground	det
21	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bowed	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 went	cc
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 left	conj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 way	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 way	nmod:poss
26	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 went	obl
27	alone	alone	ADV	_	23 went	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	Tsar			then		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past · perfect	Tsar	a little distance and the elder brother				vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme
3	bow	participle		the elder brother not said here			to the ground	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme
4	go	past	Tsar not said here		brother's way		alone property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location

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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