Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 96
They went on and on, and there, on the borders of a forest, some hounds were chasing a fox.
Who acts: noblemen, hounds · What happens: go, chase · To what, where: borders, fox
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 (noblemen, hounds), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 on | cc |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 on | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 there | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 there | cc |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 went | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 borders | punct |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 borders | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 borders | det |
| 12 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 went | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 forest | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 forest | det |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 borders | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 chasing | punct |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 hounds | det |
| 18 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 chasing | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 chasing | aux |
| 20 | chasing | chase | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 went | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 fox | det |
| 22 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 chasing | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | noblemen = nobleman | the borders of a forest | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on border=Location | ||||
| 2 | chase | past · progressive | some hounds | a fox | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=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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