Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 35
And they gave him the dog, and a wheaten hearth-cake as provision by the way.
Who acts: people · What happens: give · To what, where: dog, 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 (people), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 gave | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dog | det |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cake | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cake | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cake | det |
| 10 | wheaten | wheaten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cake | amod |
| 11 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cake | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 hearth | punct |
| 13 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 provision | case |
| 15 | provision | provision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cake | nmod |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 way | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 way | det |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | people | the dog | man | by the way; a wheaten hearth cake as provision obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient dog=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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