Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Three Brothers, sentence 5

Then the hog crept in, and dug and dug till he had digged up an apple-tree, which he ate up, and then went his way.

Who acts: hog · What happens: creep in, dig, digg up, eat up, go · To what, where: apple tree, way

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 (hog), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 crept	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hog	det
3	hog	hog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crept	nsubj
4	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 crept	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dug	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dug	cc
8	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crept	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dug	cc
10	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dug	conj
11	till	till	SCONJ	_	14 digged	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 digged	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 digged	aux
14	digged	digg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 dug	ccomp
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 digged	compound:prt
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 tree	det
17	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tree	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 apple	punct
19	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 digged	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ate	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 ate	obj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 ate	nsubj
23	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 tree	conj
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 ate	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 went	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 went	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 went	advmod
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crept	conj
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 way	nmod:poss
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 went	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	creep in	past	the hog		then	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dig	past	the hog not said here			vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	dig	past	the hog not said here			tree rules
4	digg up	past · perfect	hog	a apple tree		tree rules
5	eat up	past	hog	a apple tree		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
6	go	past	the hog not said here	hog's way	then	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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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