Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 40

So the children of the old man saw that their father had made fools of them.

Who acts: children, father · What happens: see, make · To what, where: made fools

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, father), 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	_	8 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 saw	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 man	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 children	nmod
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 made	mark
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 made	aux
13	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 fools	amod
14	fools	fool	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 saw	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fools	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the children of the old man	made fools of brothers					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fool=Stimulus
2	make	past · perfect	children's father						vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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