Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 45
Run!" cried they, "the Iron Wolf is coming!"
Who acts: things, Iron Wolf · What happens: run, cry, come · 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 (things, 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 | Run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 cried | parataxis |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Run | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Run | punct |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 coming | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 coming | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Wolf | det |
| 9 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Wolf | compound |
| 10 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 coming | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 coming | aux |
| 12 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 cried | ccomp |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 coming | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | infinitive | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | things = thing | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come | 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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