Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 49

The hare now alone remained, and the old man began sharpening his knife on the hare's account. "

Who acts: old man, hare · What happens: remain, begin, sharpen, account · To what, where: hare, knife, account

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 (old man, hare), 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	5 remained	nsubj:pass
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 remained	advmod
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 remained	advmod
5	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 began	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 remained	conj
12	sharpening	sharpen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 began	xcomp
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 knife	nmod:poss
14	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sharpening	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	19 account	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hare	det
17	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 account	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 hare	case
19	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sharpening	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 remained	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	participle · passive		the hare		now	alone property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
2	begin	past	the old man					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	sharpen	gerund	the old man not said here	bear's knife	the hare's account			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent knife=Patient
4	account		the hare					nom account «communication transitive»: poss=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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