Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 53
The old man went out, and there was the bear carrying a whole hive full of honey.
Who acts: old man, bear · What happens: go out, be, carry · To what, where: whole hive
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, bear), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 went | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 was | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 was | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bear | det |
| 11 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | nsubj |
| 12 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 bear | acl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hive | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hive | amod |
| 15 | hive | hive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carrying | obj |
| 16 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hive | amod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 honey | case |
| 18 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 full | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the old man | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | be | past | the bear | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | the bear not said here | a whole hive | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hive=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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