Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 85

Time after time they laid their heads together, and at last they agreed among themselves that the best thing the old man could do was to go to school. "

Who acts: sons, old man, best thing · What happens: lay, agree, do, be · To what, where: heads, last, best thing · 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 (sons, old man, best thing), 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	Time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laid	obl:unmarked
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 time	case
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Time	nmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laid	nsubj
5	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 heads	nmod:poss
7	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 laid	obj
8	together	together	ADV	_	5 laid	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 agreed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 agreed	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 agreed	obl
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 agreed	nsubj
14	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 laid	conj
15	among	among	ADP	_	16 themselves	case
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 agreed	obl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 go	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 thing	det
19	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 thing	amod
20	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	nsubj:outer
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 man	det
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 man	amod
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 do	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 do	aux
25	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 thing	acl:relcl
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 go	cop
27	to	to	PART	_	28 go	mark
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 agreed	ccomp
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 school	case
30	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 laid	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past	sons = son	sons's heads		time	together property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Result
2	agree speech: agree	past	sons = son		last		among sons = son	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	could	the old man	the best thing not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
4	is not said to happen	past	the best thing				to school; go property	tree rules

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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