Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 165
The rich man was amazed that things were going so well with his brother, and asked him how he had managed to get on so.
Who acts: rich man, things, man · What happens: be, go, ask, manage, get on · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here
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, things, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 amazed | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 amazed | cop |
| 5 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 going | mark |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 going | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 going | aux |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 amazed | advcl |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 well | advmod |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 going | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 brother | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 going | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 asked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 asked | cc |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 amazed | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 asked | iobj |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 managed | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 managed | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 managed | aux |
| 22 | managed | manage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 asked | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 get | mark |
| 24 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 managed | xcomp |
| 25 | on | on | ADV | _ | 24 get | advmod |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 get | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 amazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the rich man | amazed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | things | with man's brother; well property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with brother=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the rich man not said here | man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | manage | past · perfect | man | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | get on | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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