Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 47
And they saw that his feet were lame and bruised, and his body covered with scratches. "
Who acts: burners, feet, body · What happens: see, be, bruise, cover · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (burners, feet, body), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 saw | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 lame | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 feet | nmod:poss |
| 6 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lame | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lame | cop |
| 8 | lame | lame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bruised | cc |
| 10 | bruised | bruise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 lame | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 covered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 covered | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 body | nmod:poss |
| 14 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 covered | nsubj |
| 15 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 saw | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 scratches | case |
| 17 | scratches | scratch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 covered | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | burners = burner | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | stag's feet | lame property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bruise | participle | stag's feet not said here | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | cover | participle | stag's body | with scratches | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with scratch=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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