Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 10
Then the girl took the flax and drove the heifer out to graze.
Who acts: girl · What happens: take, drive out, graze · To what, where: flax, heifer
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Golden Slipper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 flax | det |
| 6 | flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 drove | cc |
| 8 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 heifer | det |
| 10 | heifer | heifer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drove | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 drove | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 graze | mark |
| 13 | graze | graze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 drove | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the girl | the flax | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flax=Theme | |||
| 2 | drive out | past | the girl not said here | the heifer | out property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heifer=Theme | |||
| 3 | graze | to-infinitive | the girl not said here | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/15/10/