Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 130

So he went home, and they saw him coming from afar, and lo! now he had six guardians, and yet had come by no harm. "'

Who acts: horse, pieces · What happens: go, see, come, have · To what, where: horse, afar, six guardians

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, pieces), 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 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 saw	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	obj
10	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 saw	xcomp
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 afar	case
12	afar	afar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 coming	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 had	cc
15	lo	lo	INTJ	_	19 had	discourse
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 lo	punct
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 had	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
20	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 guardians	nummod
21	guardians	guardian	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 had	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 come	cc
24	yet	yet	ADV	_	26 come	advmod
25	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 come	aux
26	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 went	parataxis
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 harm	case
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 harm	det
29	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 come	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	horse				home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	pieces = piece	horse				tree rules
3	come	gerund	horse not said here		afar			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from afar=Initial_Location
4	have	past	horse	six guardians		now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guardian=Patient
5	come	participle · perfect				yet	by no harm	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by harm=Location

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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