Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 83

So he stood by the door and began thinking whether he should go in or not, and whether he had any need to find out the truth about the little ram. "

Who acts: man · What happens: stand, begin, think, go, have, find out · To what, where: need, truth · 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), 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 stood	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 door	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 began	cc
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	conj
9	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 began	xcomp
10	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	13 go	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 go	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 go	aux
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 thinking	ccomp
14	in	in	ADV	_	13 go	advmod
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 not	cc
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 in	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 had	cc
19	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	21 had	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	conj
22	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	23 need	det
23	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 find	mark
25	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 need	acl
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 find	compound:prt
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 truth	det
28	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 find	obj
29	about	about	ADP	_	32 ram	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ram	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 ram	amod
32	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 truth	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stand	past	man		by the door	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by door=Location
2	begin	past	man not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	think speech: other	gerund	man not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	go	should	man			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	past	man	any need		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient
6	find out	to-infinitive	man not said here	the truth	about the little ram	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Topic

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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