Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 35

He had not gone very far when he passed by a tavern, and he felt a burning desire to find out whether the Wind had spoken the truth in the matter of the sack. "

Who acts: man, sack · What happens: not go, pass, feel, burn, find out, speak · To what, where: burning desire, Wind · 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 (man, sack), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 gone	advmod
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 far	advmod
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 gone	advmod
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 passed	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 passed	nsubj
9	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 far	advcl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 tavern	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tavern	det
12	tavern	tavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 passed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 felt	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 felt	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 felt	nsubj
16	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 desire	det
18	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 desire	amod
19	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 felt	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 find	mark
21	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 desire	acl
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 find	compound:prt
23	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	27 spoken	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Wind	det
25	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 spoken	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 spoken	aux
27	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 find	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 truth	det
29	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 spoken	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 matter	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 matter	det
32	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 truth	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 sack	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sack	det
35	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 matter	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not go	past · perfect	man		far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pass	past	man		by a tavern	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by tavern=Location
3	feel	past	man	a burning desire		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Theme
4	burn	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	find out	to-infinitive	man not said here	a burning desire not said here		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
6	speak speech: other	past · perfect · passive		the Wind		tree rules
7	matter		the sack			nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=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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