Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 147
So the pike kept on pursuing the perch, but it was of no use.
Who acts: chat · What happens: keep, pursue, be · To what, where: pike, 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 (chat), 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 kept | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pike | det |
| 3 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 6 pursuing | mark |
| 6 | pursuing | pursue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 kept | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 perch | det |
| 8 | perch | perch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pursuing | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 use | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 use | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 use | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 use | cop |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 use | case |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 use | det |
| 15 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | participle · passive | the pike | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pursue | gerund | the perch | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perch=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | chat | of no use | 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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