Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 62

Now it was his custom to rise at dawn, mount his horse, and go a-hunting, for hunting he dearly loved.

Who acts: bridge, custom, serpent · What happens: be, rise, mount, go, love · To what, where: custom, horse, hunting

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 (bridge, custom, serpent), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 custom	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 custom	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 custom	cop
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 custom	nmod:poss
5	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rise	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 rise	mark
7	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 dawn	case
9	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rise	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mount	punct
11	mount	mount	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 rise	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 horse	nmod:poss
13	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mount	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 go	cc
16	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 rise	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hunting	det
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 a	punct
19	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hunting	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 hunting	case
22	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 loved	nsubj
24	dearly	dearly	ADV	_	25 loved	advmod
25	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 hunting	acl:relcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 rise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	bridge	serpent's custom	now		tree rules
2	rise	to-infinitive	serpent's custom		dawn		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	mount	infinitive	serpent's custom not said here	serpent's horse			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
4	go	infinitive	serpent's custom not said here	a hunting		for hunting	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hunting=Theme
5	love	past	serpent	hunting not said here		dearly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hunting=Stimulus

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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