Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 8
The cat heard it, gave chase to the fox, rescued the cock, brought him home, scolded him well, and said, "Now keep out of her jaws in the future, if you don't want to be killed altogether!"
Who acts: cat, you · What happens: hear, give, rescue, bring, scold, say · To what, where: house, chase, fox, cock, jaws, future · Speech: someone speaks here
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, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cat | det |
| 2 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 7 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 fox | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fox | det |
| 10 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rescued | punct |
| 12 | rescued | rescue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cock | det |
| 14 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rescued | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 brought | punct |
| 16 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 brought | obj |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 brought | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 scolded | punct |
| 20 | scolded | scold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | parataxis |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 scolded | obj |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 scolded | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 keep | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 keep | punct |
| 28 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 keep | advmod |
| 29 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 said | ccomp |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 jaws | case |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 jaws | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 jaws | nmod:poss |
| 33 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 keep | obl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 future | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 future | det |
| 36 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 keep | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 want | punct |
| 38 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 42 want | mark |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 want | nsubj |
| 40 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 want | aux |
| 41 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 want | advmod |
| 42 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 keep | conj |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 killed | mark |
| 44 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 45 killed | aux:pass |
| 45 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 want | xcomp |
| 46 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 45 killed | advmod |
| 47 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 29 keep | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the cat | house | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the cat not said here | chase | the fox | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent chase=Theme to fox=Recipient | |||
| 3 | rescue | past | the cat not said here | the cock | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring | past | the cat not said here | cock | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 5 | scold | past | cock | well property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | say speech: express | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 7 | keep out in a quote | infinitive | fox's jaws | the future | now | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent jaw=Theme in future=Location | |||
| 8 | not want a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 9 | kill not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | you not said here | altogether property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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