Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 58

They came to his hut, and Oh took whole handfuls of millet and scattered it about, and myriads of cocks came running up and pecked it. "

Who acts: man, myriads · What happens: come, take, scatter, run up, peck · To what, where: hut, whole handfuls, millet

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 (man, myriads), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 hut	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hut	nmod:poss
5	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 took	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 took	cc
8	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	9 took	discourse
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 handfuls	amod
11	handfuls	handful	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 took	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 millet	case
13	millet	millet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 handfuls	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 scattered	cc
15	scattered	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 scattered	obj
17	about	about	ADV	_	15 scattered	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 came	cc
20	myriads	myriad	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 came	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 cocks	case
22	cocks	cock	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 myriads	nmod
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
24	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 came	advcl
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 running	compound:prt
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 pecked	cc
27	pecked	peck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 came	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 pecked	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	man		lad's hut		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hut=Initial_Location
2	take	past	man not said here	whole handfuls of millet			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme
3	scatter	past	man not said here	millet		about property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	come	past	myriads of cocks				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	run up	gerund	myriads of cocks not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	peck	past	myriads of cocks not said here	millet			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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