Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 60
But when the eldest son had been keeping his father for some time he began to regret his hospitality, and was rough to his father, and sometimes even shouted at him.
Who acts: eldest son, FATHER · What happens: keep, begin, regret, be, shout · To what, where: father, time, hospitality
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 (eldest son, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 keeping | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 keeping | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 son | det |
| 4 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 son | amod |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keeping | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 keeping | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 keeping | aux |
| 8 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keeping | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keeping | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 began | nsubj |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 time | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 regret | mark |
| 17 | regret | regret | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 began | xcomp |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hospitality | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hospitality | hospitality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 regret | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rough | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 rough | cc |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 rough | cop |
| 23 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 keeping | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 father | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 father | nmod:poss |
| 26 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rough | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 shouted | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 shouted | cc |
| 29 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 31 shouted | advmod |
| 30 | even | even | ADV | _ | 31 shouted | advmod |
| 31 | shouted | shout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 rough | parataxis |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 shouted | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 keeping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · perfect · progressive | the eldest son | FATHER's father | time | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme | |||
| 2 | begin | past | FATHER | some time not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | regret | to-infinitive | FATHER not said here | FATHER's hospitality | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hospitality=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | past | to FATHER's father; rough property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | shout speech: express | participle | at FATHER; sometimes property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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