Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 13
But the fox went on asking and asking till at last the cock let him in.
Who acts: fox, last cock · What happens: go, ask, let in · To what, where: Pussy · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fox, last cock), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 6 asking | mark |
| 6 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 asking | cc |
| 8 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 asking | conj |
| 9 | till | till | ADP | _ | 11 last | case |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 last | case |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cock | amod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cock | det |
| 13 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 let | nsubj |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 asking | ccomp |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 let | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 let | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the fox | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | the fox not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | gerund | the fox not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | let in | infinitive | the last cock | Pussy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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