Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 30
But here a stream crossed the road, and the stag plunged into the water.
Who acts: stream · What happens: cross, plunge · To what, where: road, stag, water
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 (stream), 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 | _ | 5 crossed | cc |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 crossed | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 stream | det |
| 4 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crossed | nsubj |
| 5 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 road | det |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crossed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stag | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stag | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stag | det |
| 11 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crossed | obl |
| 12 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 stag | acl |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 plunged | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | a stream | the road | here | the stag obl | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient | ||
| 2 | plunge | participle | the stag not said here | the water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_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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