Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 52

THE UNGRATEFUL CHILDREN AND THE OLD FATHER WHO WENT TO SCHOOL AGAIN

Who acts: OLD FATHER · What happens: go, school

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 (OLD FATHER), 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	THE	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 CHILDREN	det
2	UNGRATEFUL	ungrateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 CHILDREN	amod
3	CHILDREN	CHILDREN	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	AND	and	CCONJ	_	7 FATHER	cc
5	THE	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 FATHER	det
6	OLD	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 FATHER	amod
7	FATHER	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 CHILDREN	conj
8	WHO	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 WENT	nsubj
9	WENT	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 FATHER	acl:relcl
10	TO	to	ADP	_	11 SCHOOL	case
11	SCHOOL	school	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 WENT	xcomp
12	AGAIN	again	ADV	_	11 SCHOOL	advmod

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the OLD FATHER						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	school	infinitive	the OLD FATHER not said here				again		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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