Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Fox and the Cat, sentence 6
Now one day the hare came to steal the man's cabbage. "
Who acts: one day · What happens: come, steal · To what, where: cabbage
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 (one day), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 came | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hare | det |
| 5 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 steal | mark |
| 8 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 came | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cabbage | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 man | case |
| 12 | cabbage | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 steal | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | one day the hare | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | steal | to-infinitive | one day the hare not said here | the man's cabbage | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cabbage=Theme |
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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