Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 44
Then the second daughter skipped out, and pussy caught her by the forehead, and popped her into his sack, and went on playing and singing till he had got all four daughters into his sack, and the little son also.
Who acts: second daughter, pussy · What happens: skip out, catch, pop, go, play, sing · To what, where: Mammy, sack, four daughters
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 (second daughter, pussy), 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 | 5 skipped | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 daughter | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 daughter | amod |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skipped | nsubj |
| 5 | skipped | skip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 skipped | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 caught | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 caught | cc |
| 9 | pussy | pussy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caught | nsubj |
| 10 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 skipped | parataxis |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 caught | obj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 forehead | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 forehead | det |
| 14 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caught | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 popped | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 popped | cc |
| 17 | popped | pop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 caught | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 popped | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 sack | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 sack | nmod:poss |
| 21 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 popped | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 went | cc |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 caught | conj |
| 25 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 26 playing | mark |
| 26 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 went | advcl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 singing | cc |
| 28 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 playing | conj |
| 29 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 32 got | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 got | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 got | aux |
| 32 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 singing | ccomp |
| 33 | all | all | ADV | _ | 34 four | advmod |
| 34 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 daughters | nummod |
| 35 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 got | obj |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 38 sack | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 sack | nmod:poss |
| 38 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 got | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 son | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 son | cc |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 son | det |
| 42 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 son | amod |
| 43 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caught | vocative |
| 44 | also | also | ADV | _ | 43 son | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 skipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skip out | participle | the second daughter | then | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | pussy | Mammy | by the forehead; the little son vocative | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | pop | past | pussy not said here | Mammy | into Pussy's sack result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Patient into sack=Result | |||
| 4 | go | past | pussy not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | play | gerund | pussy not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | sing speech: express | gerund | pussy not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | get | past · perfect | Pussy | four daughters | Pussy's sack | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus |
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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