Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 2

One day the poor brother came to the rich brother's house and sat down at his table; but the rich brother drove him away and said, "How durst thou sit at my table?

Who acts: poor brother, rich brother, thou · What happens: come, sit down, drive away, say, sit · To what, where: house, table, him · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (poor brother, rich brother, thou), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brother	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brother	amod
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	12 house	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 brother	det
9	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 brother	amod
10	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 house	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 brother	case
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sat	cc
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 sat	compound:prt
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 table	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 table	nmod:poss
18	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 drove	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 drove	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 brother	det
22	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 brother	amod
23	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drove	nsubj
24	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	parataxis
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 drove	obj
26	away	away	ADV	_	24 drove	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 said	cc
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 drove	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sit	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 sit	punct
31	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 durst	advmod
32	durst	durst	ADV	_	34 sit	advmod
33	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	34 sit	nsubj
34	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 said	ccomp
35	at	at	ADP	_	37 table	case
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 table	nmod:poss
37	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sit	obl
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the poor brother		the rich brother's house	day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
2	sit down	past	the poor brother not said here		his table			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location
3	drive away	past	the rich brother	him = he			away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	say speech: ask	past	the rich brother not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	sit in a quote	present	thou		my table		durst property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location

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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