Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 28
But the man, as soon as he saw the Iron Wolf, leaped out of the window, mounted his horse, and galloped off with the wolf after him.
Who acts: man, Iron Wolf · What happens: see, leap out, mount, gallop off · To what, where: Iron Wolf, window, horse
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, Iron 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 galloped | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 galloped | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 soon | advmod |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 saw | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 saw | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 galloped | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Wolf | det |
| 11 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Wolf | compound |
| 12 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 leaped | punct |
| 14 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 Wolf | acl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 window | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 window | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 window | det |
| 18 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leaped | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mounted | punct |
| 20 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 horse | nmod:poss |
| 22 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mounted | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 galloped | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 galloped | cc |
| 25 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 25 galloped | compound:prt |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 wolf | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 wolf | det |
| 29 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 galloped | obl |
| 30 | after | after | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 galloped | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 galloped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | man | the Iron Wolf | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wolf=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | leap out | participle | the Iron Wolf not said here | the window | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme window=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | mount | past | man not said here | man's horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 4 | gallop off | past | the man | after horse | with the wolf | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/17/28/