Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 61

The old man no longer had his own set place in the house as heretofore, and there was none to cut up his food for him.

Who acts: old man, none · What happens: have, be, cut up · To what, where: own set place, house, food

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 man, none), 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 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
4	no	no	ADV	_	5 longer	advmod
5	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 had	advmod
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 place	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 place	amod
9	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 place	compound
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 house	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 place	nmod
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 heretofore	case
15	heretofore	heretofore	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 house	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 was	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 was	cc
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 was	expl
19	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	parataxis
20	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	19 was	nsubj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 cut	mark
22	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 none	acl
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 cut	compound:prt
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 food	nmod:poss
25	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cut	obj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 cut	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the old man	man's own set place	the house as heretofore	long property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient
2	be	past	none		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cut up	to-infinitive	none not said here	man's food		for man	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent food=Material for he=Beneficiary

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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