Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 162
Then Oh, without more ado, changed into a cock, and began pecking up all the seed.
What happens: change, begin, peck up · To what, where: more ado, seed
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 ado | advmod |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 ado | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ado | punct |
| 4 | without | without | ADP | _ | 6 ado | case |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 ado | amod |
| 6 | ado | ado | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 changed | punct |
| 8 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 ado | acl |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 cock | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cock | det |
| 11 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 changed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 began | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 began | cc |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 changed | conj |
| 15 | pecking | peck | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 began | xcomp |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 pecking | compound:prt |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 seed | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 seed | det |
| 19 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pecking | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ado | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | participle | more ado not said here | into a cock result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into cock=Result | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | peck up | gerund | all seed | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=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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