Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 162
So the rich man went with his wife to the poor man, and already from afar they perceived that the poor man had grown rich.
Who acts: rich man, afar, poor man · What happens: go, perceive, grow
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich man, afar, poor man), 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 | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 wife | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 man | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 perceived | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 perceived | cc |
| 15 | already | already | ADV | _ | 17 afar | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 afar | case |
| 17 | afar | afar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 perceived | nsubj |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 perceived | nsubj |
| 19 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 grown | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 22 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 grown | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 grown | aux |
| 25 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 perceived | ccomp |
| 26 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 grown | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the rich man | with man's wife; to the poor man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to man=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | perceive | past | afar | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | grow | past · perfect | the poor man | rich property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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