Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 144
So off they set again, and again the pike overtook the perch. "
Who acts: heads, pike · What happens: set, overtake · To what, where: 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: who acts (heads, pike), 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 | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 2 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 set | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 overtook | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 overtook | cc |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 overtook | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pike | det |
| 10 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 overtook | nsubj |
| 11 | overtook | overtake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 perch | det |
| 13 | perch | perch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 overtook | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | present | heads = head | again | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | overtake | past | the pike | the perch | again | tree rules |
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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