Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 76

One had one good excuse and another had another, and so none of them would keep him.

Who acts: One, another, none · What happens: have, keep · To what, where: one good excuse, another, FATHER

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 (One, another, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 excuse	nummod
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 excuse	amod
5	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 had	cc
7	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 had	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 keep	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 keep	cc
12	so	so	ADV	_	17 keep	advmod
13	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	17 keep	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 none	nmod
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 keep	aux
17	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 keep	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past	One	one good excuse	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excuse=Patient
2	have	past	another	another	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Patient
3	keep	would	none	FATHER	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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