Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 47
So he took the hearth-cake, sat him on his horse, and off he went, and his two dogs followed after him.
Who acts: Vazhko, two dogs · What happens: take, sit, go, follow · To what, where: hearth cake, Vazhko
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 (Vazhko, two dogs), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cake | det |
| 5 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cake | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 hearth | punct |
| 7 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sat | punct |
| 9 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sat | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 horse | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 horse | nmod:poss |
| 13 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sat | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 went | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 followed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 followed | cc |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 dogs | nummod |
| 23 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 followed | nsubj |
| 24 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 25 | after | after | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 followed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Vazhko | the hearth cake | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | Vazhko not said here | Vazhko | on Vazhko's horse | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on horse=Location | |||
| 3 | go | past | Vazhko | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | follow | past | Vazhko's two dogs | after Vazhko | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after 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.
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