Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Old Dog, sentence 14
And henceforth the woman and her husband gave the old dog a large lump of bread every day.
Who acts: woman · What happens: give · To what, where: large lump, old dog
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 (woman), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gave | cc |
| 2 | henceforth | henceforth | ADV | _ | 8 gave | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 husband | cc |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 husband | nmod:poss |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 woman | conj |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dog | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dog | amod |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lump | det |
| 13 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lump | amod |
| 14 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 bread | case |
| 16 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lump | nmod |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 day | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the woman and mistress's husband | a large lump of bread | the old dog | day | henceforth property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent dog=Recipient lump=Theme |
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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