Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 39
Then he saw some one on the other side of the river putting on his clothes, and presently the man mounted his horse and galloped away.
Who acts: stag, river, man · What happens: see, put, mount, gallop away · To what, where: one, other side, clothes, horse
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 (stag, river, man), 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 | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 side | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 side | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 side | amod |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 river | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 river | det |
| 12 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 side | nmod |
| 13 | putting | put | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 river | acl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 clothes | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 13 putting | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 mounted | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 mounted | cc |
| 19 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 22 mounted | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 mounted | nsubj |
| 22 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | parataxis |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 horse | nmod:poss |
| 24 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 mounted | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 galloped | cc |
| 26 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 mounted | conj |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 galloped | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | stag | some one | the other side of the river | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | put | gerund | the river not said here | stag's clothes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination | ||||
| 3 | mount | past | the man | stag's horse | presently property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | |||
| 4 | gallop away | past | the man not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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