Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 190

The man was surprised to find them fit for nothing, and off he ran to his brother, not forgetting to take with him his drum with the henchmen.

Who acts: man · What happens: be, find, run, not forget, take · To what, where: oxen, drum

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 surprised	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 surprised	cop
4	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 find	mark
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 surprised	advcl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 find	obj
8	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 find	xcomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 nothing	case
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 fit	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ran	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ran	cc
13	off	off	ADP	_	15 ran	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ran	nsubj
15	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 surprised	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 brother	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 brother	nmod:poss
18	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ran	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 forgetting	punct
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 forgetting	advmod
21	forgetting	forget	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 ran	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 take	mark
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 forgetting	xcomp
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 take	obl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 drum	nmod:poss
27	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 henchmen	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 henchmen	det
30	henchmen	henchman	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 take	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the man		surprised property	tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive	the man not said here	oxen = ox	fit property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
3	run	past	man		to brother's brother result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to brother=Result
4	not forget	gerund	man not said here			tree rules
5	take	to-infinitive	man not said here	brother's drum	with brother; with the henchmen	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drum=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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