Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 139

Now one day he took his little son in his arms, and said, "Is there anything in the wide world that I like better than this child?"

Who acts: son · What happens: take, say, be, like · To what, where: little son, arms, anything, wide world · 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 (son), 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

Pragmatics

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.

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