Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 45

Then the old fox was left all alone, and she waited and waited, but not one of them came back.

Who acts: fox, one · What happens: leave, wait, come back · To what, where: old 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 (fox, one), 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	6 left	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fox	amod
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 left	aux:pass
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 alone	advmod
8	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 left	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 waited	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 waited	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 waited	nsubj
12	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 left	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 waited	cc
14	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 waited	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 came	cc
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 one	advmod
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 came	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 one	nmod
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 waited	conj
22	back	back	ADV	_	21 came	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · passive		the old fox	then	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	wait	past	fox				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wait	past	fox not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come back	past	one of daughters				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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