Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 88
The next night he had to go again in the third uncle's stead.
Who acts: Michael · What happens: have, go · To what, where: stead
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 night | amod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 had | xcomp |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 stead | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 uncle | det |
| 11 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 uncle | amod |
| 12 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stead | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 uncle | case |
| 14 | stead | stead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Michael | night | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | Michael not said here | the third uncle's stead | again | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in stead=Location |
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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