Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 5

They would have liked to take counsel of some one, but they had no parents or kinsmen, nobody at all to whom they could go and ask advice in the matter.

Who acts: birds · What happens: like, take, have, go, ask · To what, where: birds, counsel, parents, advice, matter

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds), 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	4 liked	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 liked	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 liked	aux
4	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 take	mark
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 liked	xcomp
7	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 one	case
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 one	det
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 counsel	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 liked	conj
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 parents	det
16	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 had	obj
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 kinsmen	cc
18	kinsmen	kinsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 parents	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 nobody	punct
20	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 parents	conj
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 all	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 nobody	nmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 whom	case
24	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 go	obl
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 go	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 go	aux
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 nobody	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 ask	cc
29	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 go	conj
30	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ask	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 matter	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 matter	det
33	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ask	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 liked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	like	would · perfect · passive		birds = bird		tree rules
2	take not said to happen	to-infinitive		counsel of some one		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme
3	have	past	birds = bird	no parents or kinsmen		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Patient
4	go	could	birds = bird			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to whom=Initial_Location
5	ask speech: ask	infinitive	birds = bird not said here	advice	the matter	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Recipient

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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