Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 60
And toward evening he came to another brick-kiln.
Who acts: man · What happens: towar, come · To what, where: brick kiln
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 toward | cc |
| 2 | toward | towar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 toward | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 toward | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 kiln | case |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 kiln | det |
| 8 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kiln | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 brick | punct |
| 10 | kiln | kiln | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 toward | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | towar | past | evening | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come | past | man | another brick kiln | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kiln=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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