Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 100

Then the parson saw he was in evil case, and shrieked to his herdsman to leave off playing; but the herdsman was so wrapped up in his music that he did not hear him; but at last he looked in the direction of the hedge, and when he saw the poor parson skipping about like a lunatic, he stopped.

Who acts: parson, poor parson · What happens: see, be, shriek, leave off, play, wrap up · To what, where: evil case, herdsman, music, son, poor parson

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 (parson, poor parson), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 parson	det
3	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 case	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 case	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 case	case
8	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 case	amod
9	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shrieked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 shrieked	cc
12	shrieked	shriek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 herdsman	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 herdsman	nmod:poss
15	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shrieked	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 leave	mark
17	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 shrieked	advcl
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 leave	compound:prt
19	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 leave	xcomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 wrapped	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 wrapped	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 herdsman	det
23	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wrapped	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 wrapped	aux:pass
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 wrapped	advmod
26	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 saw	conj
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 wrapped	compound:prt
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 music	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 music	nmod:poss
30	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wrapped	obl
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 hear	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 hear	nsubj
33	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 hear	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 hear	advmod
35	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 wrapped	advcl
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 hear	obj
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 looked	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 looked	cc
39	at	at	ADP	_	40 last	case
40	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 looked	obl
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 looked	nsubj
42	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 direction	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 direction	det
45	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 looked	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 hedge	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 hedge	det
48	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 direction	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 saw	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 saw	cc
51	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	53 saw	advmod
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 saw	nsubj
53	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	parataxis
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 parson	det
55	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 parson	amod
56	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 saw	obj
57	skipping	skip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	56 parson	acl
58	about	about	ADV	_	57 skipping	advmod
59	like	like	ADP	_	61 lunatic	case
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 lunatic	det
61	lunatic	lunatic	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 skipping	obl
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 stopped	punct
63	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 stopped	nsubj
64	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 saw	conj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the parson				then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	parson			evil case			tree rules
3	shriek	past	the parson not said here		parson's herdsman				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to herdsman=Recipient
4	leave off	to-infinitive	the parson not said here						tree rules
5	play	gerund	the parson not said here						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wrap up	past · passive		the herdsman		parson's music			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in music=Destination
7	not hear	past · do-support	parson	son					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
8	look	past	parson					in the direction of the hedge; at last	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at last=Theme
9	see	past	parson	the poor parson					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parson=Stimulus
10	skip	gerund	the poor parson not said here					like a lunatic; about property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	stop	past	parson						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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