Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 188
But the moment he had driven the mares afield, they cocked up their tails, and away they tore across the meadows in all directions.
Who acts: steed, moment, food · What happens: drive, cock up, tore · To what, where: mares afield, tails, meadows
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (steed, moment, food), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 cocked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cocked | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 driven | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 driven | aux |
| 6 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 moment | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 afield | det |
| 8 | mares | mare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 afield | compound |
| 9 | afield | afield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 driven | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 moment | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cocked | nsubj |
| 12 | cocked | cock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 cocked | compound:prt |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 tails | nmod:poss |
| 15 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cocked | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tore | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 tore | cc |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 tore | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 tore | nsubj |
| 20 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 cocked | conj |
| 21 | across | across | ADP | _ | 23 meadows | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 meadows | det |
| 23 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 tore | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 directions | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 directions | det |
| 26 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 tore | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 cocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past · perfect | steed | the mares afield | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent afield=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cock up | past | the moment | food's tails | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | ||||
| 3 | tore | past | food | the meadows | in all directions; away property | tree rules |
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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