Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 171

He caused white tents to be pitched by the sea-shore, and bought kerchiefs and scarves and spread them out gaily, and made great store of wine and brandy in bottles and flasks.

Who acts: nobleman, sea shore · What happens: cause, pitch, buy, spread out, make · To what, where: white tents, kerchiefs, tents, great store, bottles

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nobleman, sea shore), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caused	nsubj
2	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tents	amod
4	tents	tent	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 caused	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	7 pitched	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 pitched	aux:pass
7	pitched	pitch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 tents	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	12 shore	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shore	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shore	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 sea	punct
12	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pitched	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bought	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bought	cc
15	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 caused	conj
16	kerchiefs	kerchief	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 bought	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 scarves	cc
18	scarves	scarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 kerchiefs	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 spread	cc
20	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 bought	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 spread	obj
22	out	out	ADP	_	20 spread	compound:prt
23	gaily	gaily	ADV	_	20 spread	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 made	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 made	cc
26	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 caused	conj
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 store	amod
28	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 made	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 wine	case
30	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 store	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 brandy	cc
32	brandy	brandy	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wine	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 bottles	case
34	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 made	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 flasks	cc
36	flasks	flask	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 bottles	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 caused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cause	past	nobleman	white tents			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition tent=Patient
2	pitch	to-infinitive · passive	the sea shore	white tents not said here			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	buy	past	nobleman not said here	kerchiefs and scarves			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kerchief=Theme
4	spread out	past	nobleman not said here	tents = tent		gaily property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
5	make	past	nobleman not said here	great store of wine and brandy	bottles and flasks		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset store=Product

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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