Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 141
Oh, without more ado, turned himself into a pike and pursued the perch.
What happens: turn, pursue · To what, where: son, perch
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: 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 turned | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | without | without | ADP | _ | 5 ado | case |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 ado | amod |
| 5 | ado | ado | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ado | punct |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 turned | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 pike | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pike | det |
| 11 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pursued | cc |
| 13 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 turned | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 perch | det |
| 15 | perch | perch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pursued | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | son | without more ado; into a pike result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into pike=Result | ||||
| 2 | pursue | past | the perch | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perch=Theme |
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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