Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Three Brothers, sentence 21
But the flute played of its own accord, and made this moan:
Who acts: flute · What happens: play, make · To what, where: moan
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 (flute), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 played | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 flute | det |
| 3 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 played | nsubj |
| 4 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 accord | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 accord | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 accord | amod |
| 8 | accord | accord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 played | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 played | conj |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 moan | det |
| 13 | moan | moan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | the flute | of flute's own accord | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the flute not said here | this moan | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset moan=Product |
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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