Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 1

So he mounted his steed, took his pack with him, and departed, and he came to the land where were that boar and that mill she had told him of.

Who acts: he, she · What happens: mount, take, depart, come, tell · To what, where: steed, pack, land, mill, him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, she), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg29672:527): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 mounted	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 mounted	nsubj
3	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 steed	nmod:poss
5	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mounted	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 took	punct
7	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mounted	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 pack	nmod:poss
9	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 took	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 departed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 departed	cc
14	departed	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mounted	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mounted	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 land	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 land	det
21	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 were	advmod
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 land	acl:relcl
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 boar	det
25	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 were	nsubj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 mill	cc
27	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 mill	det
28	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 boar	conj
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 told	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 told	aux
31	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 mill	acl:relcl
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 told	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	31 told	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 mounted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	mount	past	he	his steed				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Patient
2	take	past	he not said here	his pack			with him = he	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pack=Theme
3	depart	past	he not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	he			the land		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial_Location
5	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	she	that mill not said here	him = he			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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