Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 18
Across her tail My legs do trail Along the bridge so stony!
Who acts: legs · What happens: trail · To what, where: tail
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 (legs), 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 | Across | across | ADP | _ | 3 tail | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 tail | nmod:poss |
| 3 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trail | obl |
| 4 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 legs | nmod:poss |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 trail | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 trail | aux |
| 7 | trail | trail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | Along | along | ADP | _ | 10 bridge | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bridge | det |
| 10 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trail | obl |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 stony | advmod |
| 12 | stony | stony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 trail | advcl |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 trail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trail | present · do-support | My legs | hussy's tail | along the bridge | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent across tail=Trajectory |
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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