Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 136
Then Oh rode off on the horse, and the horse carried him higher than the trees of the forest, but lower than the clouds of the sky.
Who acts: horse · What happens: ride off, carry, cloud · To what, where: d., sky
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 (horse), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 rode | advmod |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 3 rode | discourse |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 rode | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 horse | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 horse | det |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 carried | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 carried | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 horse | det |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carried | nsubj |
| 12 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 carried | obj |
| 14 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 carried | xcomp |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 trees | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 trees | det |
| 17 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 higher | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 forest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 forest | det |
| 20 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 trees | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lower | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 lower | cc |
| 23 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 rode | conj |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 clouds | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 clouds | det |
| 26 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 lower | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 sky | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sky | det |
| 29 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 clouds | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride off | past | then | on the horse | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | the horse | d. | high property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | cloud | the sky | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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