Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 64
It might be better for him there or worse, but stay with his eldest son any longer he could not.
Who acts: mouth · What happens: be, stay
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 (mouth), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 better | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 better | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 better | cop |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 there | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 there | nsubj |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 better | obl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 worse | cc |
| 9 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 better | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stay | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 stay | cc |
| 12 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 better | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 son | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 son | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 son | amod |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stay | obl |
| 17 | any | any | ADV | _ | 18 longer | advmod |
| 18 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 could | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 could | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 stay | advcl |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 could | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | might | mouth | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | mouth not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | stay | infinitive | mouth not said here | with man's eldest son | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with son=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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