Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 59
They shut him up in a stone hut, with a little bed and a little stove and fire to warm him, and in a fortnight he grew quite big, indeed he grew too big for his little bed. "
Who acts: head, puss · What happens: shut up, warm, grow · To what, where: puss, stone hut
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 (head, puss), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shut | nsubj |
| 2 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shut | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 shut | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hut | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hut | det |
| 7 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hut | compound |
| 8 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shut | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bed | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 bed | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bed | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bed | amod |
| 13 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hut | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stove | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 stove | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 stove | amod |
| 17 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hut | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fire | cc |
| 19 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stove | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 warm | mark |
| 21 | warm | warm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 stove | acl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 warm | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 grew | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 grew | cc |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 fortnight | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 fortnight | det |
| 27 | fortnight | fortnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 grew | obl |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 grew | nsubj |
| 29 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shut | conj |
| 30 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 31 big | advmod |
| 31 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 grew | xcomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 grew | punct |
| 33 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 35 grew | advmod |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 grew | nsubj |
| 35 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 grew | conj |
| 36 | too | too | ADV | _ | 37 big | advmod |
| 37 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 grew | xcomp |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 bed | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 bed | nmod:poss |
| 40 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 bed | amod |
| 41 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 big | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shut | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut up | present | head | puss | a stone hut and a little bed and a little stove and fire | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 2 | warm | to-infinitive | head not said here | puss | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | puss | fortnight | big property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | grow | past | puss | big, indeed property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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