Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 34
Then the old people awoke him, and said, "Be off! be off! for the Iron Wolf is coming."
Who acts: old people, Iron Wolf · What happens: awake off, say, be off, come · To what, where: man · 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 (old people, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 awoke | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 people | amod |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 awoke | nsubj |
| 5 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 awoke | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awoke | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Be | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Be | punct |
| 12 | Be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 Be | compound:prt |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 awoke | punct |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 off | cop |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 awoke | compound:prt |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 awoke | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 coming | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Wolf | det |
| 20 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Wolf | compound |
| 21 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 coming | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 coming | aux |
| 23 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 awoke | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 awoke | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake off | past | the old people | man | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the old people not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be off in a quote | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | come in a quote | present · progressive | the Iron Wolf | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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