Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 64

So the wise brothers came down, put all the merchandise on the backs of the robbers' horses, and went home with it; but the only thing that Ivan was able to secure for himself was a bag of incense.

Who acts: wise brothers, only thing, Ivan · What happens: come down, put, go, be, secure · To what, where: merchandise, backs

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 (wise brothers, only thing, Ivan), 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	_	5 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brothers	det
3	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brothers	amod
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 put	punct
8	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 came	advcl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 merchandise	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 merchandise	det
11	merchandise	merchandise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 backs	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 backs	det
14	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 put	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 horses	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 robbers	det
17	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 horses	nmod:poss
18	'	's	PART	_	17 robbers	case
19	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 backs	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 went	cc
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
23	home	home	ADV	_	22 went	advmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 went	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 able	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 able	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 thing	det
29	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 thing	amod
30	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 able	nsubj
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 able	nsubj
32	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 able	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 able	cop
34	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 came	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 secure	mark
36	secure	secure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 able	xcomp
37	for	for	ADP	_	41 bag	case
38	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	41 bag	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 bag	cop
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 bag	det
41	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 secure	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 incense	case
43	incense	incense	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 bag	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come down	past	the wise brothers			down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put	infinitive	the wise brothers not said here	all merchandise	the backs of the robbers's horses		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent merchandise=Theme on back=Destination
3	go	past	the wise brothers not said here			with merchandise; home property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with it=Beneficiary
4	is	past	the only thing			able property	tree rules
5	secure	to-infinitive	the only thing not said here				vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	is	past	Ivan			for a bag; of incense	tree rules

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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