Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 96

When the old man came near to the nobleman's carriage, he stepped out of the road to let it pass, took off his hat respectfully, and then would have gone on farther.

Who acts: old man, man, nobleman · What happens: come, step out, let, pass, take off, go · To what, where: carriage, road, nobleman, hat, farther

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, nobleman), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
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	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 stepped	advcl
6	near	near	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 carriage	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 nobleman	det
9	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carriage	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 nobleman	case
11	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stepped	nsubj
14	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 road	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 road	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 road	det
18	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stepped	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 let	mark
20	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 stepped	advcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 let	obj
22	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 let	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 took	punct
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 stepped	conj
25	off	off	ADP	_	24 took	compound:prt
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hat	nmod:poss
27	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 took	obj
28	respectfully	respectfully	ADV	_	24 took	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 gone	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 gone	cc
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 gone	advmod
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 gone	aux
33	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 gone	aux
34	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 took	conj
35	on	on	ADP	_	36 farther	case
36	farther	far	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 gone	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 stepped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the old man		the nobleman's carriage		near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to carriage=Initial_Location
2	step out	past	man	the road				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location road=Theme
3	let	to-infinitive	man not said here	nobleman				tree rules
4	pass	infinitive	nobleman not said here					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	take off	past	man not said here	man's hat			respectfully property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme
6	go	would · perfect	man not said here		farther	then		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on far=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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