Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 43
Then the willow-tree did its duty, and shook all its leaves, and a noble lady came forth from it. "
Who acts: willow tree, noble lady · What happens: do, shake, come · To what, where: duty, leaves, tree
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 (willow tree, noble lady), 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 | 6 did | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 3 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tree | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 willow | punct |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 shook | advcl |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 duty | nmod:poss |
| 8 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shook | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shook | cc |
| 11 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 leaves | det:predet |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 14 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shook | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 came | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 lady | det |
| 18 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lady | amod |
| 19 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 shook | conj |
| 21 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 20 came | advmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 came | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 shook | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the willow tree | tree's duty | then | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | shake | past | tree's leaves | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | |||||
| 3 | come | past | a noble lady | tree | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from it=Initial_Location |
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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