Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 20
Whence it came none knew, and it was so heavy that none could move it, though they tried for ages. "
Who acts: stone, none, wolves · What happens: come, know, be, move, try · To what, where: stone
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 (stone, none, 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 | Whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 tried | advcl |
| 4 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 heavy | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 heavy | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 heavy | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 heavy | cop |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 heavy | advmod |
| 11 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 move | mark |
| 13 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 15 move | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 move | aux |
| 15 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 heavy | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 move | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tried | punct |
| 18 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 20 tried | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 tried | nsubj |
| 20 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 ages | case |
| 22 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 tried | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 tried | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | stone | whence property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | past | none | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | stone | heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | move | could | none | stone | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | try | past | wolves = wolf | for ages | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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