Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 108
Then they slew the horse, but the maiden did as she was told, and took the drop of blood and buried it in the garden.
Who acts: heart, maiden · What happens: slay, do, tell, take, bury · To what, where: horse, many, drop, garden · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of Unlucky Daniel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, maiden), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 slew | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 slew | nsubj |
| 3 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 horse | det |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slew | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 did | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 did | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 maiden | det |
| 9 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 did | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 slew | conj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 told | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 told | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 told | aux:pass |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 did | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 slew | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 drop | det |
| 19 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 blood | case |
| 21 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drop | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 buried | cc |
| 23 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 took | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 buried | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 garden | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 garden | det |
| 27 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 buried | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 slew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | past | heart | the horse | then | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | |||
| 2 | do | past | the maiden | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | many | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | take | past | the drop of blood | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bury | past | drop | the garden | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in garden=Destination |
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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