Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 49

And when the huntsman had spoken so far, the horse on which he sat became stone right up to the breast.

Who acts: horse · What happens: speak, sit, become · 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 spoken	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 spoken	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 huntsman	det
4	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spoken	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spoken	aux
6	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 far	advmod
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 spoken	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 horse	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 horse	det
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spoken	parataxis
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 sat	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sat	nsubj
15	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 horse	acl:relcl
16	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sat	conj
17	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 became	xcomp
18	right	right	ADV	_	19 up	advmod
19	up	up	ADP	_	22 breast	case
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 breast	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 breast	det
22	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sat	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 spoken	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; up the breast	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location
3	become	past	horse not said here	stone		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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