Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Nobles and Princes], sentence 2
Then they looked about them and saw a beautiful willow-tree standing by a hut, and beneath the willow-tree was a spring of water. "
Who acts: they · What happens: look, see, be · To what, where: beautiful tree standing, spring
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Nobles and Princes]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they), 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 looked | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 standing | det |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 standing | amod |
| 10 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tree | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 willow | punct |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 standing | compound |
| 13 | standing | standing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 hut | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hut | det |
| 16 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 spring | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 spring | cc |
| 19 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 23 tree | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tree | det |
| 21 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tree | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 willow | punct |
| 23 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 spring | obl |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 spring | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 spring | det |
| 26 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 water | case |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 spring | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | they | then | about them = they | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about they=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | they not said here | a beautiful tree standing | by a hut | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer standing=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is a | past | a spring | beneath the willow tree; of water | tree rules |
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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