Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 177
So the lad brought in the ram, and the rich brother wondered what they were going to do with it.
Who acts: lad, rich brother · What happens: bring, wonder, go, do · To what, where: ram · 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 (lad, rich brother), 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 | _ | 4 brought | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lad | det |
| 3 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 ram | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ram | det |
| 7 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wondered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wondered | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 brother | det |
| 11 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 brother | amod |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wondered | nsubj |
| 13 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | conj |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 going | nsubj |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 going | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 going | aux |
| 17 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 wondered | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 going | xcomp |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 do | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the lad | the ram | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | past | the rich brother | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | go | past · progressive | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | with lad | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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