Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 16

So the old man was no longer ill-treated by his children, but lived among them like an emperor in his own empire, but no sooner did he die than his children made what haste they could to lay hands upon the casket.

Who acts: children, man · What happens: treat, live, die, make, lay · To what, where: old man, haste, hands, casket

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 (children, man), 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	_	10 treated	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	10 treated	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 treated	aux
6	no	no	ADV	_	7 longer	advmod
7	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 treated	advmod
8	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 treated	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 ill	punct
10	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 children	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 children	nmod:poss
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 treated	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lived	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 lived	cc
16	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 treated	conj
17	among	among	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lived	obl
19	like	like	ADP	_	21 emperor	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 emperor	det
21	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lived	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 empire	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 empire	nmod:poss
24	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 empire	amod
25	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 emperor	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 die	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 die	cc
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 sooner	det
29	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 die	advmod
30	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 die	aux
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 die	nsubj
32	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 treated	conj
33	than	than	SCONJ	_	36 made	mark
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 children	nmod:poss
35	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 made	nsubj
36	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 die	ccomp
37	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	38 haste	det
38	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 made	obj
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 could	nsubj
40	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 haste	acl:relcl
41	to	to	PART	_	42 lay	mark
42	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 made	advcl
43	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 lay	obj
44	upon	upon	ADP	_	46 casket	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 casket	det
46	casket	casket	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 lay	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 treated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	treat	past · passive	man's children	the old man		long property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
2	live	past	man's children not said here			among children = child; like a emperor in man's own empire	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among they=Location
3	die	past · do-support	man			soon property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	make	past	man's children	what haste			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product
5	lay	to-infinitive	man's children not said here	hands	the casket		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme upon casket=Destination

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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