Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 56
She ate the pike's head and went about as usual for a whole year, and when the year was out she gave birth to a son who was a serpent.
Who acts: Tsaritsa, son · What happens: eat, go about, be · To what, where: head, serpent
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 (Tsaritsa, son), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ate | nsubj |
| 2 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pike | det |
| 4 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 pike | case |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ate | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ate | conj |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 usual | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 usual | advmod |
| 11 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 went | xcomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 year | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 year | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 year | amod |
| 15 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 usual | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 gave | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 gave | cc |
| 18 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 was | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 year | det |
| 20 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 was | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 gave | cop |
| 22 | out | out | ADV | _ | 21 was | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gave | nsubj |
| 24 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ate | conj |
| 25 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gave | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 son | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 son | det |
| 28 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gave | obl |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 serpent | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 serpent | cop |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 serpent | det |
| 32 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 son | acl:relcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | Tsaritsa | the pike's head | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go about | past | Tsaritsa not said here | usual property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Tsaritsa | to a son; give property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | a son | a serpent | 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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