Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 102
They counted down the money and took the dog and set off hunting.
Who acts: roubles · What happens: count down, take, set off · To what, where: money, dog, hunting
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roubles), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 counted | nsubj |
| 2 | counted | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 counted | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 money | det |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 counted | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 took | cc |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 counted | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dog | det |
| 9 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 took | conj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 set | compound:prt |
| 13 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 counted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count down | past | roubles = rouble | the money | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | roubles = rouble not said here | the dog | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dog=Destination | ||||
| 3 | set off | infinitive | roubles = rouble not said here | hunting | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition hunting=Patient |
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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