Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 1

So the old man returned to his children with the purse in a casket, and when he came to the village with the casket under his arm, one could see at once that he had been in a _good forest_.

Who acts: old man, man, one · What happens: return, come, see, be · To what, where: village, good forest

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2. 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, one), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 returned	advmod
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 returned	nsubj
5	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 children	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 children	nmod:poss
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 returned	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 purse	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 purse	det
11	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 returned	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 casket	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 casket	det
14	casket	casket	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 purse	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 see	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 see	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 came	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 see	advcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 village	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 village	det
22	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 casket	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 casket	det
25	casket	casket	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl
26	under	under	ADP	_	28 arm	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 arm	nmod:poss
28	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 casket	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
30	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 see	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 see	aux
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 returned	parataxis
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 once	case
34	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	32 see	obl
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 forest	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 forest	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 forest	aux
38	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 forest	cop
39	in	in	ADP	_	43 forest	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 forest	det
41	_	_	PUNCT	_	43 forest	punct
42	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 forest	amod
43	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 see	advcl
44	_	_	PUNCT	_	32 see	punct
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	return	past	the old man		to man's children result; with the purse in a casket	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to child=Result
2	come	past	man	the village	with the casket under man's arm	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location
3	see	could	one			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past · perfect	man	a good forest		tree rules

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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