Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 92

But there was no use talking, his children said he _must_ go to school, and the voices of his children prevailed against his feeble old voice.

Who acts: use, children, voices · What happens: be, talk, say, go, prevail · To what, where: school, feeble old voice · 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 (use, children, voices), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 was	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 use	det
5	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 use	acl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 children	nmod:poss
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 talking	parataxis
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 go	nsubj
12	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 he	punct
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 go	aux
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 school	case
17	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 go	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 prevailed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 prevailed	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 voices	det
21	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 prevailed	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 children	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 children	nmod:poss
24	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 voices	nmod
25	prevailed	prevail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
26	against	against	ADP	_	30 voice	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 voice	nmod:poss
28	feeble	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 voice	amod
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 voice	amod
30	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 prevailed	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	be	past	no use	there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	talk	gerund	no use not said here		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	use's children		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	must	use	school	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location
5	prevail	past	the voices of use's children	use's feeble old voice	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against voice=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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