Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 164
And his tongue was loosened, and he began to show him everything, whatsoever he possessed.
Who acts: man · What happens: loosen, begin, show, possess · To what, where: tongue, everything, man, whatsoever
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 loosened | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 3 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loosened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 loosened | aux:pass |
| 5 | loosened | loosen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 began | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 began | nsubj |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 loosened | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 show | mark |
| 11 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 show | iobj |
| 13 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 show | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 possessed | punct |
| 15 | whatsoever | whatsoever | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 possessed | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 possessed | nsubj |
| 17 | possessed | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 everything | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 loosened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | loosen | past · passive | man's tongue | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | man | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | show | to-infinitive | man not said here | everything | man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient everything=Topic | |||
| 4 | possess | past | man | whatsoever | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot whatsoever=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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