Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 110

The falcon pursued but always fell short of the quail, and the quail always eluded the falcon.

Who acts: falcon, quail · What happens: pursue, fall, elude · To what, where: falcon

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 (falcon, quail), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 falcon	det
2	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pursued	nsubj
3	pursued	pursue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 fell	cc
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 fell	advmod
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pursued	conj
7	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fell	xcomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 quail	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 quail	det
10	quail	quail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 short	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 eluded	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 eluded	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 quail	det
14	quail	quail	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eluded	nsubj
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 eluded	advmod
16	eluded	elude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pursued	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 falcon	det
18	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eluded	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pursued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pursue	past	the falcon			vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	fall	past	the falcon not said here		always, short property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	elude	past	the quail	the falcon	always property	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent falcon=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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