Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 111
The son then changed himself into a falcon and immediately struck down its prey.
Who acts: son · What happens: change, strike down · To what, where: son, prey
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 (son), 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 son | det |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 changed | advmod |
| 4 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 changed | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 falcon | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 falcon | det |
| 8 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 struck | cc |
| 10 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 11 struck | advmod |
| 11 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 changed | conj |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 struck | compound:prt |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 prey | nmod:poss |
| 14 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 struck | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | the son | son | then | into a falcon result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into falcon=Result | ||
| 2 | strike down | participle | the son not said here | quail's prey | immediately property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=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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