Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 97
They chased it and chased it, but the fox kept on escaping, and the hounds could not run it down.
Who acts: hounds, fox · What happens: chase, keep, escape, not run down · To what, where: 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 (hounds, fox), 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 chased | nsubj |
| 2 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 chased | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 chased | cc |
| 5 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 chased | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 chased | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kept | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 kept | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fox | det |
| 10 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kept | nsubj |
| 11 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 chased | parataxis |
| 12 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 13 escaping | mark |
| 13 | escaping | escape | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 kept | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 run | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 run | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hounds | det |
| 17 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 run | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 run | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 run | advmod |
| 20 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 kept | parataxis |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 run | obj |
| 22 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 run | compound:prt |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 chased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | past | hounds = hound | fox | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | chase | past | hounds = hound not said here | fox | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep | participle | the fox | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | escape | gerund | the fox not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not run down | could | the hounds | fox | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory |
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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