Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 67

Whenever he began to eat, his second son and his daughter-in-law looked sour and murmured something between their teeth.

Who acts: man, second son · What happens: begin, eat, look, murmur · To what, where: something

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 (man, second son), 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	Whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	3 began	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 looked	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 son	nmod:poss
8	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 son	amod
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 looked	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 daughter	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 daughter	nmod:poss
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 son	conj
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 law	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 law	case
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 in	punct
16	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 daughter	conj
17	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 looked	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 murmured	cc
20	murmured	murmur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 looked	conj
21	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 murmured	obj
22	between	between	ADP	_	24 teeth	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 teeth	nmod:poss
24	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 something	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	man		whenever property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat	to-infinitive	man not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look	past	man's second son and man's daughter and law		sour property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	murmur speech: other	past	man's second son and man's daughter and law not said here	something	between sons's teeth	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic

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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