Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 37
They broke it open and it was full of sand. "
Who acts: barrels, gold · What happens: break, be · To what, where: gold
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 (barrels, gold), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 broke | nsubj |
| 2 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 broke | obj |
| 4 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 broke | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 full | cc |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 full | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 full | cop |
| 8 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 broke | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sand | case |
| 10 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 full | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 broke | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | barrels = barrel | gold | open property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | gold | of sand; full property | 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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