Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Three Brothers, sentence 17
It began to dig up another tree, when he pulled the trigger and--bang!
Who acts: gun, fool · What happens: begin, dig up, pull · To what, where: tree, trigger
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Three Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gun, fool), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 dig | mark |
| 4 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 began | xcomp |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 dig | compound:prt |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dig | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pulled | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 pulled | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pulled | nsubj |
| 11 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 began | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 trigger | det |
| 13 | trigger | trigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pulled | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bang | cc |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 bang | punct |
| 16 | bang | bang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trigger | conj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | gun | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | dig up | to-infinitive | gun not said here | another tree | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pull | past | fool | the trigger and bang | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trigger=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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