Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 79

And the old man, grey, grey, grey as a dove was he, wept before his sons, and knew not whither to turn.

Who acts: old man, man · What happens: be, weep, not know, turn · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here

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	And	and	CCONJ	_	17 wept	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 he	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 grey	punct
6	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grey	punct
8	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grey	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 grey	punct
10	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grey	conj
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 dove	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 dove	det
13	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grey	obl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 he	cop
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wept	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 he	punct
17	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	before	before	ADP	_	20 sons	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 sons	nmod:poss
20	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 wept	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 knew	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 knew	cc
23	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 wept	conj
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 knew	advmod
25	whither	whither	ADV	PronType=Int	27 turn	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 turn	mark
27	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 knew	ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the old man	man			tree rules
2	weep	past	man		before man's sons		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not know	past	man not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	turn	to-infinitive				whither property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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