Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Old Dog, sentence 8
So the wolf seized the child, and ran away with it, and the dog ran after him, and began to touzle him.
Who acts: wolf, dog · What happens: seize, run away, run, begin, touzle · To what, where: child, 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 (wolf, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 seized | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wolf | det |
| 3 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seized | nsubj |
| 4 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seized | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ran | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ran | cc |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seized | conj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 ran | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ran | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ran | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ran | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dog | det |
| 16 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ran | nsubj |
| 17 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seized | conj |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ran | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 began | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 began | cc |
| 22 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seized | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 touzle | mark |
| 24 | touzle | touzle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 began | xcomp |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 touzle | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | the wolf | the child | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run away | past | the wolf not said here | with child; away property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with it=Material | ||||
| 3 | run | past | the dog | after wolf | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | the wolf not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | touzle | to-infinitive | the wolf not said here | dog | tree rules |
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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