Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 181

So they picked it up, and the rich brother and his wife marvelled, and the brother said, "Thou hast a very nice piece of goods there, brother.

Who acts: sack, rich brother, brother, Thou · What happens: pick up, marvell, say, have · To what, where: lad, nice piece · 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 (sack, rich brother, brother, Thou), 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	_	3 picked	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 picked	nsubj
3	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 picked	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 picked	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 marvelled	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 marvelled	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 brother	det
9	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 brother	amod
10	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 marvelled	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wife	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod:poss
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brother	conj
14	marvelled	marvell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 picked	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 brother	det
18	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 picked	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hast	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 hast	punct
22	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	23 hast	nsubj
23	hast	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 said	ccomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 piece	det
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 nice	advmod
26	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 piece	amod
27	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hast	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 goods	case
29	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	27 piece	nmod
30	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 hast	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 brother	punct
32	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hast	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pick up	past	sack	lad			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	marvell	past	the rich brother and brother's wife				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the brother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have in a quote	present	Thou	a nice piece of goods	there	brother obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient

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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