Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 79

He took his boards and the basket of nuts, and went to the church at nightfall and read.

Who acts: Michael · What happens: take, go, read · To what, where: boards, nightfall

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 (Michael), 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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 boards	nmod:poss
4	boards	board	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 basket	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 basket	det
7	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boards	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 nuts	case
9	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 basket	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 church	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 church	det
15	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 nightfall	case
17	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 read	cc
19	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 went	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	Michael	Michael's boards and the basket of nuts			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent board=Theme
2	go	past	Michael not said here		nightfall	to the church	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location
3	read	infinitive	Michael not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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