Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 47

When the huntsman had spoken so far, the horse on which he sat became stone up to the knee.

Who acts: horse · What happens: speak, sit, become up · To what, where: huntsman, stone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 spoken	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 huntsman	det
3	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spoken	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spoken	aux
5	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 became	advcl
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 far	advmod
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 spoken	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 spoken	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 horse	det
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 became	nsubj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 sat	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sat	nsubj
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 horse	acl:relcl
15	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 became	xcomp
17	up	up	ADP	_	15 became	compound:prt
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 knee	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 knee	det
20	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 became	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past · perfect · passive		the huntsman	far property	tree rules
2	sit	past	horse		on the horse	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location
3	become up	past	the horse	stone	to the knee	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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