Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 24
But the fox begged and begged so piteously that, at last, the cock was quite touched, and opened the door.
Who acts: fox · What happens: beg, touch, open · To what, where: that, cock, door
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 begged | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 begged | nsubj |
| 4 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 begged | cc |
| 6 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 begged | conj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 piteously | advmod |
| 8 | piteously | piteously | ADV | _ | 6 begged | advmod |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 begged | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 last | punct |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 begged | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 touched | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cock | det |
| 15 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 touched | aux:pass |
| 17 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 18 touched | advmod |
| 18 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 last | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 opened | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 opened | cc |
| 21 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 begged | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 door | det |
| 23 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 opened | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | the fox | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | the fox not said here | that | piteously property | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent that=Recipient | |||
| 3 | touch | past · passive | the cock | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | |||||
| 4 | open | past | the fox not said here | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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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