Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 110

But as for the parson, he took good care to tie himself first of all to the pillar which held up the roof of the house.

Who acts: parson, pillar · What happens: take, tie, hold up · To what, where: good care, parson, roof

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, pillar), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 took	cc
2	as	as	ADV	_	5 parson	advmod
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 parson	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 parson	det
5	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 parson	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 took	nsubj
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 care	amod
10	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 tie	mark
12	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 took	advcl
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 tie	obj
14	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 tie	advmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 tie	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 pillar	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pillar	det
19	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tie	obl
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 held	nsubj
21	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 pillar	acl:relcl
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 held	compound:prt
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 roof	det
24	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 held	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 house	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 house	det
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 roof	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	parson	good care	for the parson	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent care=Theme for parson=Beneficiary
2	tie	to-infinitive	parson not said here	parson	of all; to the pillar; first property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient to pillar=Co-Patient
3	hold up	past	the pillar	the roof of the house		vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot roof=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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