Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 69
The man stared and stared, but he could not pick out his son. "
Who acts: man, son · What happens: stare, not pick out · To what, where: son
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, son), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stared | nsubj |
| 3 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stared | cc |
| 5 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stared | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pick | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 pick | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pick | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 pick | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 pick | advmod |
| 11 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stared | parataxis |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 pick | compound:prt |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pick | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stared | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | past | the man | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stare | past | the man not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not pick out | could | son | son's son | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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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