Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 106

They came rushing up with sticks and cudgels, but he began talking to them, and at last they recognized him, led him home, and he told his wife all about Ivan.

Who acts: robbers, parson · What happens: come, rush up, begin, talk, recognize, lead · To what, where: robbers, parson, last, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (robbers, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 came	xcomp
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 rushing	compound:prt
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 sticks	case
6	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rushing	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cudgels	cc
8	cudgels	cudgel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sticks	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 began	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 began	nsubj
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
13	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 began	xcomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 talking	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 led	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 led	cc
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 last	case
19	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 led	obl
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 recognized	nsubj
21	recognized	recognize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 last	acl:relcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 recognized	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 last	punct
24	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 led	obj
26	home	home	ADV	_	24 led	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 told	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 told	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 told	nsubj
30	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 wife	nmod:poss
32	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 told	iobj
33	all	all	ADV	_	30 told	advmod
34	about	about	ADP	_	35 Ivan	case
35	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 told	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	robbers = robber					tree rules
2	rush up	gerund	robbers = robber not said here				with sticks and cudgels	vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with stick=Eventuality
3	begin	past	parson					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	talk	gerund	parson not said here		robbers = robber			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-Agent
5	recognize	past	robbers = robber	parson				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
6	lead	past	robbers = robber not said here	parson		last	home property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme at last=Destination
7	tell speech: assert	past	parson		parson's wife		about Ivan; all property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient about ivan=Topic

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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