Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 4, sentence 2

Then he told her all about his sister.

Who acts: Tsarivna · What happens: tell · To what, where: her · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsarivna), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 told	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	all	all	ADV	_	8 sister	advmod
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 sister	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sister	nmod:poss
8	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Tsarivna		her = she		then	about Tsarivna's sister	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient about sister=Topic

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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