Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 43

He was a long time before he _began_ learning, but better late than never.

Who acts: father · What happens: be, begin · To what, where: long time, learning

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 time	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 time	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 time	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 began	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 began	nsubj
8	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 began	punct
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 time	advcl
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 learning	punct
11	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 began	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 late	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 late	cc
14	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 late	advmod
15	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	parataxis
16	than	than	ADP	_	17 never	case
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 late	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 time	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	father	a long time					tree rules
2	begin	past	father	learning					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent learning=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/23/43/