Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 93

Where on earth has he been feeding them?" thought he; "they are quite tired out and almost famished!

Who acts: parson, cattle · What happens: have, feed, think, be, famish · To what, where: earth, cattle, parson · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (parson, cattle), 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 has	advmod
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 earth	case
3	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obl
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 thought	advcl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 feeding	nsubj
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 feeding	aux
7	feeding	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 has	obj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 feeding	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 feeding	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 feeding	punct
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thought	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 tired	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 tired	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tired	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 tired	cop
17	quite	quite	ADV	_	18 tired	advmod
18	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thought	parataxis
19	out	out	ADV	_	18 tired	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 famished	cc
21	almost	almost	ADV	_	22 famished	advmod
22	famished	famish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 tired	conj
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present			earth		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	feed	participle · progressive	parson	cattle			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	think speech: other in a quote	past		parson			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme
4	is	present	cattle			out, tired property	tree rules
5	famish	participle	cattle not said here			almost property	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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