Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 61
There was nothing but cocks, and one cock was just like another.
Who acts: nothing, one cock · What happens: be
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 (nothing, one cock), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 was | nsubj |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 cocks | cc |
| 5 | cocks | cock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 nothing | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 another | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 another | cc |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 cock | nummod |
| 9 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 another | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 another | cop |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 another | advmod |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 another | case |
| 13 | another | another | PRON | PronType=Ind | 2 was | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | one cock | like another | 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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