Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 36
He went home, and when he got there he found that all his wealth was consumed, and a heap of ashes stood where his house had been.
Who acts: family, heap, house · What happens: go, get, find, consume, stand, be · To what, where: wealth
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 (family, heap, house), 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 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 got | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 got | nsubj |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 found | advcl |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 got | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | nsubj |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 consumed | mark |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 wealth | det:predet |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 consumed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 consumed | aux:pass |
| 17 | consumed | consume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 found | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stood | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 stood | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 heap | det |
| 21 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stood | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 ashes | case |
| 23 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 heap | nmod |
| 24 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 been | advmod |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 house | nmod:poss |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 been | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 been | aux |
| 29 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 stood | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | family | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | past | family | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | find | past | family | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | consume | past · passive | family's wealth | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | |||||
| 5 | stand | past | a heap of ashes | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | be | past · perfect | family's house | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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