Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 27

He went on and on till he came to a city where all the people were weeping and all the houses were hung with black cloth.

Who acts: brother, people · What happens: go, come, weep, hang · To what, where: city, houses

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, people), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 on	cc
5	on	on	ADV	_	3 on	conj
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 city	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 city	det
11	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 weeping	advmod
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 people	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 people	det
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 weeping	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 weeping	aux
17	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 city	acl:relcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 hung	cc
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 houses	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 houses	det
21	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hung	nsubj:pass
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 hung	aux:pass
23	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 came	conj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 cloth	case
25	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 cloth	amod
26	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hung	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	brother				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	brother		a city		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location
3	weep	past · progressive	all people				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hang	past · passive		all houses		with black cloth	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with cloth=Instrument

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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