Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 16
The same night the wolves made an inroad upon the stables and tore the horse to pieces.
Who acts: wolves · What happens: make, tore · To what, where: inroad, horse
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 (wolves), 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 | 3 night | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 night | amod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wolves | det |
| 5 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 inroad | det |
| 8 | inroad | inroad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 stables | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stables | det |
| 11 | stables | stable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 inroad | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tore | cc |
| 13 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 horse | det |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tore | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 pieces | case |
| 17 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tore | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the wolves | a inroad | night | upon the stables | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset inroad=Product | ||
| 2 | tore | past | the wolves not said here | the horse | to pieces | 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: «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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