Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 50
On and on he went till evening, when again he stopped and looked about him, and he saw that he was in another forest, and another little hut stood before him.
Who acts: dog, little hut · What happens: go, stop, look, see, be, stand · To what, where: forest · 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 (dog, little hut), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 5 went | mark |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 went | cc |
| 3 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 5 went | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stopped | advcl |
| 6 | till | till | ADP | _ | 7 evening | case |
| 7 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stopped | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 again | advmod |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 stopped | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stopped | nsubj |
| 12 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 looked | cc |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stopped | conj |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 looked | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 saw | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stopped | parataxis |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 forest | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 forest | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 forest | cop |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 forest | case |
| 25 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 forest | det |
| 26 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 saw | ccomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 stood | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 stood | cc |
| 29 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 hut | det |
| 30 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 hut | amod |
| 31 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stood | nsubj |
| 32 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 saw | conj |
| 33 | before | before | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 stood | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | dog | evening | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | dog | again | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | look | past | dog not said here | about dog | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | dog | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | past | dog | another forest | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | stand | past | another little hut | before dog | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location |
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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