Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 26
So away they went hunting in the forest, and it was not long before a stag leaped out of the thicket beneath the very eyes of the Tsar.
Who acts: huntsmen, forest, stag · What happens: go, hunt, be, leap out · To what, where: forest, thicket
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 (huntsmen, forest, stag), 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 | _ | 2 away | advmod |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 went | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 forest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 forest | det |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hunting | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stag | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stag | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stag | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 stag | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 long | advmod |
| 14 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 stag | advmod |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 stag | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 stag | det |
| 17 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 18 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 stag | acl |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 thicket | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 thicket | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 thicket | det |
| 22 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leaped | obl |
| 23 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 26 eyes | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 eyes | det |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 eyes | advmod |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 leaped | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Tsar | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Tsar | det |
| 29 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 eyes | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | huntsmen = huntsman | away property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hunt | gerund | huntsmen = huntsman not said here | the forest | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | forest | before a stag | long property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | leap out | participle | a stag not said here | the thicket | beneath the eyes of the Tsar | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thicket=Trajectory |
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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