Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 29
Away and away he galloped, and after him came the wolf, but try as it would, it could not catch him up anyhow.
Who acts: man, Wolf · What happens: gallop, come, try, not catch up · To what, where: man
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, 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 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 5 galloped | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 away | cc |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Away | conj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 galloped | nsubj |
| 5 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 8 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 came | mark |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 galloped | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wolf | det |
| 12 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 try | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 try | cc |
| 15 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 galloped | parataxis |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 would | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 would | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 catch | aux |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 would | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 catch | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 catch | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 catch | advmod |
| 23 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 try | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 catch | obj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 catch | compound:prt |
| 26 | anyhow | anyhow | ADV | _ | 23 catch | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 galloped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gallop | past | man | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | try | infinitive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | not catch up | could | Wolf | man | anyhow property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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/pg29672/17/29/