Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 119
At last the Cossack left off beating the sacks, and rode away.
What happens: leave off, beat, ride away · To what, where: last Cossack, sacks
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 Cossack | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Cossack | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Cossack | det |
| 4 | Cossack | cossack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obl |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 left | compound:prt |
| 7 | beating | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 left | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sacks | det |
| 9 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 beating | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rode | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rode | cc |
| 12 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 rode | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave off | past | the last Cossack | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | beat | gerund | the sacks | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sack=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ride away | past | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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