Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 80

There Oh scattered about handfuls of wheat and called his doves, and there flew down such a multitude of them that there was no counting them, and one dove was just like another. "

Who acts: multitude · What happens: scatter, call, fly down, count · To what, where: doves · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (multitude), 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	3 scattered	expl
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	3 scattered	discourse
3	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 handfuls	case
5	handfuls	handful	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scattered	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 wheat	case
7	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 handfuls	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 called	cc
9	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scattered	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 doves	nmod:poss
11	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 called	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 flew	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 flew	cc
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 flew	expl
15	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scattered	parataxis
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 flew	compound:prt
17	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	19 multitude	det:predet
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 multitude	det
19	multitude	multitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 counting	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 multitude	nmod
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 was	mark
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 was	expl
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 counting	aux
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 counting	det
26	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 flew	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 counting	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 another	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 another	cc
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 dove	nummod
31	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 another	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 another	cop
33	just	just	ADV	_	35 another	advmod
34	like	like	ADP	_	35 another	case
35	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 scattered	parataxis
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 scattered	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 scattered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	scatter	participle			there	about handfuls of wheat	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme about handful=Destination
2	call	past		son's doves			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dove=Recipient
3	fly down	past			there		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	count	past · progressive	such multitude of doves	doves = dove			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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