Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 11
He had scarcely uttered the words when the Iron Wolf came running up, and said to him, "I'll collect and drive back all these cattle into the egg again, and I'll patch the egg up so that it will become quite whole.
Who acts: servant, Iron Wolf, Wolf · What happens: utter, come, run up, say, collect, drive back · To what, where: words, servant, cattle, egg · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Iron Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, Iron Wolf, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 uttered | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 uttered | aux |
| 3 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 4 uttered | advmod |
| 4 | uttered | utter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 words | det |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 uttered | obj |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 came | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Wolf | det |
| 9 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Wolf | compound |
| 10 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 uttered | advcl |
| 12 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 came | advcl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 running | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 collect | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 collect | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 collect | nsubj |
| 22 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 collect | aux |
| 23 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 drive | cc |
| 25 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 collect | conj |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 drive | advmod |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 cattle | det:predet |
| 28 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 29 cattle | det |
| 29 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 drive | obj |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 egg | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 egg | det |
| 32 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 drive | obl |
| 33 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 drive | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 patch | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 patch | cc |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 patch | nsubj |
| 37 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 patch | aux |
| 38 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 uttered | obl:agent |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 egg | det |
| 40 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 patch | obj |
| 41 | up | up | ADP | _ | 38 patch | compound:prt |
| 42 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 46 become | mark |
| 43 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 so | fixed |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 become | nsubj |
| 45 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 become | aux |
| 46 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 uttered | advcl |
| 47 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 48 whole | advmod |
| 48 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 become | xcomp |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | utter speech: other | past · perfect | servant | the words | scarcely property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | |||
| 2 | come | past | the Iron Wolf | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run up | gerund | the Iron Wolf not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Iron Wolf not said here | servant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | collect in a quote | future | servant | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | drive back in a quote | infinitive | servant not said here | all cattle | the egg | again | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cattle=Theme into egg=Trajectory | ||
| 7 | patch up in a quote | future | servant | the egg | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | become in a quote | future | Wolf | whole property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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