Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 81
So he engaged Ivan as his servant, and the next day he sent him out into the fields to tend his cattle.
Who acts: Ivan · What happens: engage, send out, tend · To what, where: Ivan, parson, fields, cattle
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 (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 | _ | 3 engaged | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 engaged | nsubj |
| 3 | engaged | engage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 engaged | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 servant | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 servant | nmod:poss |
| 7 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 engaged | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sent | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sent | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 day | det |
| 11 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 day | amod |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sent | nsubj |
| 14 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 engaged | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sent | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 sent | compound:prt |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 fields | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fields | det |
| 19 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sent | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 tend | mark |
| 21 | tend | tend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sent | advcl |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 cattle | nmod:poss |
| 23 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 tend | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 engaged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | engage | past | Ivan | Ivan | as Ivan's servant | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent ivan=Theme as servant=Attribute | |||
| 2 | send out | past | Ivan | parson | the fields | day | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||
| 3 | tend | to-infinitive | Ivan not said here | Ivan's cattle | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=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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