Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 14
Then the fox rushed at him, seized him by the neck, and ran off with him.
Who acts: fox · What happens: rush, seize, run off · To what, where: Pussy
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 rushed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rushed | nsubj |
| 4 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rushed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seized | punct |
| 8 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rushed | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 seized | obj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 neck | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 neck | det |
| 12 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seized | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ran | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ran | cc |
| 15 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rushed | conj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 ran | compound:prt |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ran | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | the fox | then | at Pussy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | seize | past | the fox not said here | Pussy | by the neck | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | run off | past | the fox not said here | with Pussy | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with he=Material |
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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