Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 163
He pecked and pecked till he had pecked it all up.
Who acts: Tsar · What happens: peck, peck up · To what, where: 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: who acts (Tsar), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pecked | nsubj |
| 2 | pecked | peck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 pecked | cc |
| 4 | pecked | peck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pecked | conj |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 pecked | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pecked | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pecked | aux |
| 8 | pecked | peck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 pecked | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pecked | obj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 it | det |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 pecked | compound:prt |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pecked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peck | past | Tsar | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | peck | past | Tsar not said here | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | peck up | past · perfect | Tsar | seed | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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