Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Fox and the Cat, sentence 18
So they were all four very frightened, and the bear ran up a tree, and the others hid where they could.
Who acts: bear, others · What happens: be, run up, hide · To what, where: tree
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Fox and the Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, others), 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 | _ | 7 frightened | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 frightened | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 frightened | cop |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 four | advmod |
| 5 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 frightened | nsubj |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 frightened | advmod |
| 7 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ran | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ran | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bear | det |
| 11 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ran | nsubj |
| 12 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 frightened | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 ran | compound:prt |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ran | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hid | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hid | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 others | det |
| 19 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hid | nsubj |
| 20 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 frightened | conj |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 could | advmod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 could | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 hid | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | bear | frightened property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run up | past | the bear | a tree | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | hide | past | the others | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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