Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 63

The old man had nothing for it but to go to his second son.

Who acts: old man · What happens: have, go · To what, where: nothing

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), 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	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 had	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nothing	nmod
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 go	cc
9	to	to	PART	_	10 go	mark
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 son	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 son	nmod:poss
13	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 son	amod
14	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the old man	nothing				for mouth	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	go	to-infinitive	the old man not said here					to man's second son	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to son=Initial_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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