Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 168
They bathed in the lake, and in the meantime the youth crept up and took the raiment of one of them and hid it behind the bushes.
Who acts: doves, youth · What happens: bath, creep up, take, hide · To what, where: lake, meantime, raiment, bushes
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doves, youth), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bathed | nsubj |
| 2 | bathed | bath | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 lake | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lake | det |
| 5 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bathed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 crept | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 crept | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 meantime | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 meantime | det |
| 10 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crept | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 youth | det |
| 12 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crept | nsubj |
| 13 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bathed | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 crept | compound:prt |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 took | cc |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bathed | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 raiment | det |
| 18 | raiment | raiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 raiment | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 one | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hid | cc |
| 24 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bathed | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 hid | obj |
| 26 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 28 bushes | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bushes | det |
| 28 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hid | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bathed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bath | past | doves = dove | the lake | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | creep up | past | the youth | the meantime | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in meantime=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | take | past | doves = dove not said here | the raiment of one of doves | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raiment=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hide | past | doves = dove not said here | raiment | the bushes | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient behind bush=Location |
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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