Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Old Dog, sentence 12
Then the man chased the wolf, and got back the child. "
Who acts: man · What happens: chase, get back · To what, where: wolf, child
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Old Dog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 chased | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chased | nsubj |
| 4 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wolf | det |
| 6 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chased | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 got | cc |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 chased | conj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 got | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 child | det |
| 12 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 chased | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 chased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | past | the man | the wolf | then | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme | |||
| 2 | get back | past | the man not said here | the child | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=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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