Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 16
The servant went home to the village where he lived, made him a cattle-pen stronger than strong, went inside it and broke the egg, and immediately that cattle-pen was as full of cattle as it could hold.
Who acts: servant, cattle pen, pen · What happens: go, live, make, break, be, hold · To what, where: village, cattle pen, servant, pen, egg
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, cattle pen, pen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 servant | det |
| 2 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 village | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 village | det |
| 7 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 lived | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 village | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 made | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 pen | det |
| 15 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pen | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 cattle | punct |
| 17 | pen | pen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obj |
| 18 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 made | xcomp |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 strong | case |
| 20 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 stronger | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | parataxis |
| 23 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 went | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 broke | cc |
| 26 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 went | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 egg | det |
| 28 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 broke | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 full | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 full | cc |
| 31 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 38 full | advmod |
| 32 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 pen | det |
| 33 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 pen | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 cattle | punct |
| 35 | pen | pen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 full | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 full | cop |
| 37 | as | as | ADP | _ | 38 full | case |
| 38 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | parataxis |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 cattle | case |
| 40 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 full | obl |
| 41 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 hold | mark |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 hold | nsubj |
| 43 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 hold | aux |
| 44 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 full | advcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the servant | the village | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | live | past | servant | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | past | the servant not said here | a cattle pen | servant | strong property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary pen=Product | ||
| 4 | go | past | pen | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme inside it=Location | |||||
| 5 | break | past | the egg | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer egg=Patient | |||||
| 6 | is | past | that cattle pen | of cattle; full, immediately property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | hold | could | pen | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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