Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 30
At last, toward evening, the man stopped and looked about him, and saw that he was in a lone forest, and before him stood a hut.
Who acts: man · What happens: stop, look, see, be, stand · To what, where: lone forest, hut · 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 (man), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 evening | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 evening | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 evening | punct |
| 4 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 5 evening | case |
| 5 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stopped | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 evening | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stopped | nsubj |
| 9 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looked | cc |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stopped | conj |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stopped | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 forest | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 forest | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 forest | cop |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 forest | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 forest | det |
| 22 | lone | lone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 forest | amod |
| 23 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 stood | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 stood | cc |
| 26 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 28 stood | mark |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 stood | nsubj |
| 28 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stopped | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 hut | det |
| 30 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stood | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | the man | evening | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | look | past | the man not said here | about man | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | the man not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | man | a lone forest | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | stand | past | man | a hut | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hut=Stimulus |
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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