Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 126

He went and looked, and lo! all the chaff was by itself, and all the grain was by itself, and all the straw by itself!

Who acts: many, chaff, grain · What happens: go, look, be · To what, where: straw

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many, chaff, grain), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 looked	cc
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 itself	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 itself	cc
7	lo	lo	INTJ	_	14 itself	discourse
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 lo	punct
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 chaff	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 chaff	det
11	chaff	chaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 itself	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 itself	cop
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 itself	case
14	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 went	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 itself	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 itself	cc
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 grain	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 grain	det
19	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 itself	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 itself	cop
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 itself	case
22	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 went	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 straw	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 straw	cc
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 straw	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 straw	det
27	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
28	by	by	ADP	_	29 itself	case
29	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	27 straw	nmod
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	many	all straw by chaff		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	past	many not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	past	all chaff		by chaff	tree rules
4	is	past	all grain		by chaff	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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