Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Fox and the Cat, sentence 9
The hare was frightened and ran away and told the bear, the wolf, and the wild boar all about it. "
What happens: frighten, run away, tell · To what, where: hare, bear · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 hare | det |
| 2 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | aux:pass |
| 4 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ran | cc |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | conj |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 ran | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 told | cc |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bear | det |
| 11 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 told | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wolf | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wolf | det |
| 14 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bear | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 boar | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 boar | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 boar | det |
| 18 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 boar | amod |
| 19 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 told | ccomp |
| 20 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 it | advmod |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 told | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 frightened | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | the hare | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | run away | past | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the bear and the wolf | about hare | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent bear=Recipient about it=Topic |
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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