Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 55
The old man looked out and saw the wolf driving a whole flock of sheep into the yard.
Who acts: old man, wolf · What happens: look out, see, drive · To what, where: wolf, whole flock
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, 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 | 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 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 looked | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wolf | det |
| 9 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 10 | driving | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 wolf | acl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 flock | det |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 flock | amod |
| 13 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 driving | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sheep | case |
| 15 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 flock | nmod |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 yard | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 yard | det |
| 18 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 driving | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look out | past | the old man | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see | past | the old man not said here | the wolf | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wolf=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | drive | gerund | the wolf not said here | a whole flock of sheep | into the yard | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent flock=Theme into yard=Trajectory |
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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