Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 31

He ran and ran, but this time he couldn't catch the fox up; so he returned home and wept bitterly, because he was now all alone.

Who acts: cock · What happens: run, not catch up, return, weep, be · To what, where: fox

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 ran	cc
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 catch	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 catch	cc
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 catch	obl:unmarked
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 catch	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 catch	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 catch	advmod
12	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ran	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fox	det
14	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 catch	obj
15	up	up	ADP	_	12 catch	compound:prt
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 returned	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	19 returned	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 returned	nsubj
19	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
20	home	home	ADV	_	19 returned	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 wept	cc
22	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
23	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	22 wept	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 alone	punct
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	30 alone	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 alone	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 alone	cop
28	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 alone	advmod
29	all	all	ADV	_	30 alone	advmod
30	alone	alone	ADV	_	22 wept	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	cock				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	past	cock not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not catch up	could	cock	the fox	time		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Theme
4	return	past	cock			home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	weep	past	cock not said here			bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	cock		now	all, alone property	tree rules

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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