Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Old Dog, sentence 9
His mistress saw it, and made after them with a harrow, crying at the same time, "Husband, husband! the wolf has got the child!
Who acts: mistress, wolf · What happens: see, make, cry, get · To what, where: child, Husband · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (mistress, wolf), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 made | cc |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 saw | conj |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 made | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 harrow | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 harrow | det |
| 12 | harrow | harrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 crying | punct |
| 14 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 made | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 17 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 crying | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 got | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Husband | punct |
| 21 | Husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 got | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 husband | punct |
| 23 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Husband | conj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 Husband | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wolf | det |
| 26 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 got | nsubj |
| 27 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 got | aux |
| 28 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | parataxis |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 child | det |
| 30 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 got | obj |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | dog's mistress | child | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | dog's mistress not said here | after teeth = tooth | with a harrow | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | dog's mistress not said here | time | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | get in a quote | present · perfect | the wolf | Husband and husband | 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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