Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 18
Then she drove the heifer out to graze, and threw herself down in the grass, and slept the whole day, and did not even take the trouble to go and moisten the flax in the cooling stream.
Who acts: woman · What happens: drive out, graze, throw down, sleep, not take, go · To what, where: heifer, woman, grass, trouble, flax, cooling stream
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 (woman), 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 | 3 drove | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drove | nsubj |
| 3 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heifer | det |
| 5 | heifer | heifer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drove | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 drove | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 graze | mark |
| 8 | graze | graze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 drove | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 threw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 threw | cc |
| 11 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drove | conj |
| 12 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 threw | obj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 threw | compound:prt |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 grass | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 grass | det |
| 16 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 threw | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 slept | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 slept | cc |
| 19 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drove | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 day | det |
| 21 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 day | amod |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 slept | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 take | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 take | cc |
| 25 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 take | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 take | advmod |
| 27 | even | even | ADV | _ | 28 take | advmod |
| 28 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 slept | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 trouble | det |
| 30 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 take | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 go | mark |
| 32 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 take | advcl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 moisten | cc |
| 34 | moisten | moisten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 go | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 flax | det |
| 36 | flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 moisten | obj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 stream | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 stream | det |
| 39 | cooling | cooling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 stream | compound |
| 40 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 moisten | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive out | past | woman | the heifer | then | out property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heifer=Theme | ||
| 2 | graze | to-infinitive | woman not said here | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | throw down | past | woman not said here | woman | the grass | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme in grass=Destination | |||
| 4 | sleep | past | day | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not take | past · do-support | the trouble | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme | |||||
| 6 | go | to-infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | moisten | infinitive | the flax | the cooling stream | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent flax=Patient |
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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