Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 27
He saw the host standing round the house in three strong rows, but through all three rows he leaped and made straight for the house.
Who acts: man, host · What happens: see, stand, leap, make · To what, where: host, three strong rows, three rows
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 (man, host), 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 | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 host | det |
| 4 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 5 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 host | acl |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 standing | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 rows | case |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 rows | nummod |
| 11 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rows | amod |
| 12 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 standing | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 leaped | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 leaped | cc |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 rows | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 rows | det |
| 17 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 rows | nummod |
| 18 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 leaped | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 leaped | nsubj |
| 20 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 made | cc |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 leaped | conj |
| 23 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 22 made | advmod |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 house | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 house | det |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | man | the host | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer host=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | the host not said here | three strong rows | round the house | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=Location | |||
| 3 | leap | past | man | all three rows | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through row=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | make | past | man not said here | for the house; straight property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for house=Asset |
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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