Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 28
And with that the wolf fell upon him and tried to tear the tar off.
Who acts: wolf · What happens: fall, try, tear off · To what, where: tar
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Straw Ox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fell | cc |
| 2 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 6 fell | mark |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 fell | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wolf | det |
| 5 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fell | nsubj |
| 6 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fell | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tried | cc |
| 10 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fell | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 tear | mark |
| 12 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 tried | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tar | det |
| 14 | tar | tar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tear | obj |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 tear | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the wolf | upon heifer | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location | ||||
| 2 | try | past | the wolf not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | tear off not said to happen | to-infinitive | the wolf not said here | the tar | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tar=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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