Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 42
He went for a third day, and in the distance he saw a hay-cock. "
Who acts: Tsar · What happens: go, see · To what, where: hay cock
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 (Tsar), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 5 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 day | amod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 distance | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 distance | det |
| 11 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cock | det |
| 15 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cock | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 hay | punct |
| 17 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Tsar | day | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Tsar | a hay cock | in the distance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cock=Stimulus |
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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