Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 1

There was once upon a time a cat and a cock, who agreed to live together, so they built them a hut on an ash-heap, and the cock kept house while the cat went foraging for sausages.

Who acts: cat · What happens: be, agree, live together, build, keep, go · To what, where: them, ash heap, cock

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat), 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	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cat	det
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 time	appos
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cock	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cock	det
11	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cat	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 agreed	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 agreed	nsubj
14	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cat	acl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 live	mark
16	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 agreed	xcomp
17	together	together	ADV	_	16 live	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 built	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 built	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 built	nsubj
21	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 built	obj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 hut	det
24	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 built	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	29 heap	case
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 heap	det
27	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 heap	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 ash	punct
29	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 built	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 kept	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 kept	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cock	det
33	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 kept	nsubj:pass
34	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 was	parataxis
35	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 kept	obj
36	while	while	SCONJ	_	39 went	mark
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 cat	det
38	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 went	nsubj
39	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 kept	advcl
40	foraging	forage	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 went	xcomp
41	for	for	ADP	_	42 sausages	case
42	sausages	sausage	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 foraging	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past			there	time	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	agree speech: agree	past	a cat and a cock					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	live together not said to happen	to-infinitive	a cat and a cock not said here				together property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	build	past	cat	them = they	a ash heap			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary hut=Product
5	keep	participle · passive		the cock				vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme house=Attribute
6	go	past	the cat					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	forage	gerund	the cat not said here				for sausages	vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for sausage=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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