Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 99

The old man took off his hat to the nobleman and told him all his misery, and the tears ran down the old man's cheeks. "

Who acts: old man, tears · What happens: take off, tell, run down · To what, where: hat, misery, man, cheeks · 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 (old man, tears), 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	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 took	compound:prt
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hat	nmod:poss
7	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 nobleman	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 nobleman	det
10	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 misery	det:predet
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 misery	nmod:poss
16	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ran	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ran	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tears	det
20	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 ran	nsubj
21	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 ran	compound:prt
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 man	det
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 man	amod
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cheeks	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 man	case
27	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 ran	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take off	past	the old man	man's hat		to the nobleman	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the old man not said here	man's misery	man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient misery=Topic
3	run down	past	the tears	the old man's cheeks			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cheek=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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