Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 58

He took the hearth-cake, sat him on his horse, and off he went.

Who acts: dog · What happens: take, sit, go · To what, where: hearth cake, dog

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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cake	det
4	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cake	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 hearth	punct
6	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sat	punct
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sat	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 horse	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 horse	nmod:poss
12	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 went	cc
15	off	off	ADP	_	17 went	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	dog	the hearth cake		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme
2	sit	past	dog not said here	dog	on dog's horse	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on horse=Location
3	go	past	dog			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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