Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 59

So now he had three dogs, and they all three followed him.

Who acts: dog, people · What happens: have, follow · To what, where: three dogs, 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, 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 had	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 dogs	nummod
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 followed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 followed	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 followed	nsubj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 three	det
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 followed	nsubj
12	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 followed	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	dog	three dogs			now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient
2	follow	past	people	dog					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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