Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 125
The next day the faithful wife spread out her little cloth again, and laid upon it her golden apple.
Who acts: faithful wife · What happens: spread out, lay · To what, where: little cloth, golden apple, cloth
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 (faithful wife), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spread | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wife | det |
| 5 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wife | amod |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spread | nsubj |
| 7 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 spread | compound:prt |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cloth | nmod:poss |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cloth | amod |
| 11 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spread | obj |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 spread | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 laid | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 laid | cc |
| 15 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 spread | advcl |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 laid | obl |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 apple | nmod:poss |
| 19 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 apple | amod |
| 20 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 laid | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread out | past | the faithful wife | Empress's little cloth | again; day | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cloth=Theme | |||
| 2 | lay | participle | the faithful wife not said here | Empress's golden apple | cloth | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent apple=Theme upon it=Destination |
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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