Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 88
So the horse went on and on, and wandered farther and farther, till it came to the old place where he had stayed with the Serpent Lady.
Who acts: horse, sack · What happens: go, wander, come, stay · To what, where: old place
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 (horse, sack), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 on | cc |
| 7 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 on | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wandered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wandered | cc |
| 10 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 11 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 wandered | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 farther | cc |
| 13 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 farther | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 came | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 wandered | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 place | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 place | det |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 place | amod |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 stayed | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 stayed | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 stayed | aux |
| 25 | stayed | stay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 place | acl:relcl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 Lady | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Lady | det |
| 28 | Serpent | Serpent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Lady | compound |
| 29 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 stayed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the horse | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wander | past | the horse not said here | far property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | sack | the old place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | stay | past · perfect | horse | with the Serpent Lady | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with lady=Location |
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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