Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 9

They took care of him and the old man was happy, but he took heed to the counsel of the nobleman, and never let the casket out of his hand. "

Who acts: brothers, old man, man · What happens: take, be, not let, care · To what, where: care, heed, counsel, casket, hand

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 (brothers, old man, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 care	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 happy	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 happy	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 happy	cop
11	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 took	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 took	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 took	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 took	nsubj
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
16	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 counsel	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 counsel	det
19	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 nobleman	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 nobleman	det
22	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 counsel	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 let	cc
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 let	advmod
26	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 casket	det
28	casket	casket	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 let	obj
29	out	out	ADP	_	32 hand	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 hand	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 hand	nmod:poss
32	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 let	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	brothers = brother	care of man			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
2	is	past	the old man			happy property	tree rules
3	take	past	man	heed	the counsel of the nobleman		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent heed=Theme to counsel=Destination
4	not let	infinitive		the casket	man's hand		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent casket=Theme
5	care		man				nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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