Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 118
The wolf set off, entered the widow's cow-house, and killed her cow.
Who acts: wolf · What happens: set off, enter, kill · To what, where: wolf, cow house, cow
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (wolf), 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 wolf | det |
| 2 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 wolf | acl |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 wolf | punct |
| 6 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 widow | det |
| 8 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 house | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 widow | case |
| 10 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 house | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 cow | punct |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 entered | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 killed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 killed | cc |
| 15 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 entered | conj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 cow | nmod:poss |
| 17 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 killed | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set off | participle | the wolf not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | enter | past | the wolf | the widow's cow house | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination | ||||
| 3 | kill | past | the wolf not said here | Widow's cow | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme |
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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