Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 115
So they higgled and haggled, but at last they gave him the three hundred roubles.
Who acts: falcons · What happens: higgle, haggle, give · To what, where: hundred roubles, son, last
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 (falcons), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 higgled | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 higgled | nsubj |
| 3 | higgled | higgle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 haggled | cc |
| 5 | haggled | haggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 higgled | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 gave | cc |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 last | case |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gave | obl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 higgled | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | iobj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 roubles | det |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 hundred | compound |
| 15 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 roubles | nummod |
| 16 | roubles | rouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gave | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 higgled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | higgle | past | falcons = falcon | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | haggle | past | falcons = falcon not said here | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give | past | falcons = falcon | the hundred roubles | son | last | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient rouble=Theme at last=Asset |
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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