Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 106
The goat saw him with the twelfth and caught him,"--and there the story ends.
Who acts: goat, story · What happens: see, catch, end · To what, where: first · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goat, story), 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 | 2 goat | det |
| 2 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 twelfth | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 twelfth | det |
| 7 | twelfth | twelfth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 caught | cc |
| 9 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 caught | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 caught | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 caught | punct |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 ends | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ends | cc |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 ends | expl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 story | det |
| 17 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ends | nsubj |
| 18 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the goat | first | with the twelfth | tree rules | |||
| 2 | catch | past | the goat not said here | first | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | end in a quote | present | the story | there | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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