Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 32
At last, however, he dried his tears and got him a little fiddle, a little fiddle-bow, and a big sack, and went to the fox's hole and began to play:
Who acts: cock · What happens: dry, get, go, begin, play · To what, where: tears, last, little fiddle, cock, hole
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dried | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 dried | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 dried | nsubj |
| 7 | dried | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 tears | nmod:poss |
| 9 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dried | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 got | cc |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dried | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 got | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fiddle | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fiddle | amod |
| 15 | fiddle | fiddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 got | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bow | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bow | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bow | amod |
| 19 | fiddle | fiddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bow | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 fiddle | punct |
| 21 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fiddle | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sack | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sack | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 sack | det |
| 25 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sack | amod |
| 26 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 got | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 went | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 went | cc |
| 29 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dried | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 hole | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 fox | det |
| 32 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 hole | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 fox | case |
| 34 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 went | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 began | cc |
| 36 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 went | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 play | mark |
| 38 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 began | xcomp |
| 39 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 dried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry | past | cock | cock's tears | last | however property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient tear=Result | ||
| 2 | get | past | cock not said here | a little fiddle | cock | a big sack obl | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary fiddle=Theme | ||
| 3 | go | past | cock not said here | the fox's hole | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hole=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | cock not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | play | to-infinitive | cock not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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