Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 51
And when they got home they skinned them to make nice beds to lie upon, and lived happily together in peace and plenty.
Who acts: cat, nice beds · What happens: get, skin, make, lie, live · To what, where: tears, nice beds, peace
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 (cat, nice beds), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 skinned | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 skinned | advcl |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 skinned | nsubj |
| 7 | skinned | skin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 skinned | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 skinned | advcl |
| 11 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 beds | amod |
| 12 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 make | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 lie | mark |
| 14 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 make | xcomp |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 lie | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lived | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lived | cc |
| 18 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 skinned | conj |
| 19 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 18 lived | advmod |
| 20 | together | together | ADV | _ | 18 lived | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 peace | case |
| 22 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lived | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 plenty | cc |
| 24 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 peace | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 skinned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | cat | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | skin | past | cat | tears = tear | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | cat not said here | nice beds | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lie | to-infinitive | nice beds not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | live | past | cat not said here | peace and plenty | happily, together property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=Location |
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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