Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 66
But here the old man soon discovered that he had only exchanged wheat for straw.
Who acts: old man, man · What happens: discover, exchange · To what, where: wheat
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, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 discovered | cc |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 discovered | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 discovered | nsubj |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 discovered | advmod |
| 7 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 exchanged | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 exchanged | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 exchanged | aux |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 exchanged | advmod |
| 12 | exchanged | exchange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 discovered | advcl |
| 13 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 exchanged | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 straw | case |
| 15 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 exchanged | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past | the old man | here | soon property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | exchange | past · perfect | man | wheat | for straw | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent wheat=Theme for straw=Co-Theme |
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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