Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Fox and the Cat, sentence 2
The man didn't want puss any longer, but not liking to kill it, took it out into the forest and lost it there.
Who acts: man · What happens: not want, not like, kill, take out, lose · To what, where: puss, forest
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 (man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 want | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 want | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 want | advmod |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | puss | puss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 want | obj |
| 7 | any | any | ADV | _ | 8 longer | advmod |
| 8 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 want | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 liking | advmod |
| 12 | liking | like | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 took | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 kill | mark |
| 14 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 liking | xcomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 kill | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 liking | punct |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 want | parataxis |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | obj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 took | compound:prt |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 forest | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 forest | det |
| 22 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 lost | cc |
| 24 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 took | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 lost | obj |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 lost | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want | past · do-support | the man | puss | long property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot puss=Theme | |||
| 2 | not like | gerund | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | puss | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take out | past | puss | the forest | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lose | past | puss | there | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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