Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 10
He had scarcely gone when the sly she-fox again came creeping up. "
Who acts: cock, fox, sly fox · What happens: go, fox, come, creep up
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 (cock, fox, sly 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 3 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 4 gone | advmod |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 came | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fox | det |
| 7 | sly | sly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fox | amod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fox | nsubj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 fox | punct |
| 10 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 came | advmod |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | advcl |
| 13 | creeping | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 came | xcomp |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 creeping | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | cock | scarcely property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fox | fox | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | come | past | the sly fox | again | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | creep up | gerund | the sly fox not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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