Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 87

Then they told the old man about it; but the old man did not want to go to school.

Who acts: sons, old man · What happens: tell, not want, go · To what, where: old man, school · 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), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 told	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 man	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 want	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 want	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 want	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 want	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 want	advmod
16	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 go	mark
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 want	xcomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 school	case
20	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	sons = son	the old man		then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not want	past · do-support	the old man				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old man not said here		school		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location

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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