Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 98
The nobleman then got out of his carriage and asked the old man whither he was going.
Who acts: nobleman, man · What happens: get out, ask, go · To what, where: carriage, 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 (nobleman, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 nobleman | det |
| 2 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 got | advmod |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 carriage | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 carriage | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 carriage | nmod:poss |
| 8 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 asked | cc |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 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 | 10 asked | obj |
| 14 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 going | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 going | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 going | aux |
| 17 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 asked | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get out | past | the nobleman | man's carriage | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the nobleman not said here | the old man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | go | past · progressive | man | whither property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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