Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 132
Next morning the young men arose and went to the serpent, and the prince took leave of his father-in-law, and said he must be going home.
Who acts: young men, prince, father · What happens: arise, go, take, say · To what, where: serpent, leave · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young men, prince, 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arose | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 men | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 men | amod |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 arose | nsubj |
| 6 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 arose | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 serpent | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 serpent | det |
| 11 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 took | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 arose | conj |
| 17 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 law | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 father | nmod:poss |
| 20 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 law | nsubj |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 law | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 law | case |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 in | punct |
| 24 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 leave | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 said | cc |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 took | conj |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 going | nsubj |
| 29 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 going | aux |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 going | aux |
| 31 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 said | ccomp |
| 32 | home | home | ADV | _ | 31 going | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | the young men | morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the young men not said here | the serpent | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to serpent=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | take | past | the prince | leave of law | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the prince not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | go | must · progressive | father | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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