Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 58

So he took up a pipe, filled it with tobacco, lit it, and began to smoke.

Who acts: father · What happens: take up, fill, light, begin, smoke · To what, where: pipe, tobacco

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 (father), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 took	compound:prt
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pipe	det
6	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 filled	punct
8	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 filled	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 tobacco	case
11	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 filled	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lit	punct
13	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lit	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 began	cc
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 smoke	mark
19	smoke	smoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take up	past	father	a pipe		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Theme
2	fill	past	father not said here	tobacco	with tobacco	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with tobacco=Instrument
3	light	past	father not said here	tobacco		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product
4	begin	past	father not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	smoke	to-infinitive	father not said here			vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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