Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 82

Not one of the sons would take the old man in, and yet he had to be put somewhere.

Who acts: one sons, man · What happens: take, have, put · To what, where: old man

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 sons, 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 sons	nummod
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 sons	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sons	det
5	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 take	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 take	aux
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obj
11	in	in	ADV	_	7 take	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
14	yet	yet	ADV	_	16 had	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 take	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	19 put	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 put	aux:pass
19	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 had	xcomp
20	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 put	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	would	the one sons	the old man			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination
2	have	past	man		yet		tree rules
3	put	to-infinitive · passive	man not said here			somewhere property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»

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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