Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 66
Then Ivan Golik confessed to him that he was his younger brother, and told him the whole story of his life.
Who acts: Ivan · What happens: confess, be, tell · To what, where: prince, younger brother, whole story, Ivan · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 confessed | advmod |
| 2 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 confessed | nsubj |
| 3 | Golik | Golik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ivan | flat |
| 4 | confessed | confess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 confessed | obl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 brother | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 brother | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 brother | cop |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 brother | amod |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 confessed | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 told | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 told | cc |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 confessed | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 told | iobj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 story | det |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 story | amod |
| 19 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 told | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 life | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 life | nmod:poss |
| 22 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 story | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 confessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confess | past | Ivan | prince | then | vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Ivan | Ivan's younger brother | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Ivan not said here | the whole story of Ivan's life | Ivan | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic |
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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