Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Old Dog, sentence 2
While the dog was young he was made much of, but when he grew old he was driven out of doors.
Who acts: dog · What happens: be, make, grow, drive out · To what, where: dog, doors
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 (dog), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 young | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 young | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 young | cop |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | aux:pass |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 young | acl:relcl |
| 9 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 made | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 much | fixed |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 grew | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 grew | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 grew | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 grew | nsubj |
| 15 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | conj |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 grew | xcomp |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 driven | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 driven | aux:pass |
| 19 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 grew | ccomp |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 doors | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 doors | case |
| 22 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 driven | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 young | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the dog | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | dog | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary much=Product | |||||
| 3 | grow | past | dog | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | drive out | past · passive | dog | doors | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme door=Destination |
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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