Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 85
Then the poor bride sat her down and wept and wept, and when she had no more tears to weep, she went forth into the wide world to seek her husband.
Who acts: poor bride, mother · What happens: sit down, weep, have, go, seek · To what, where: mother, more tears, wide world, husband
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 (poor bride, mother), 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 | 5 sat | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bride | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bride | amod |
| 4 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sat | obj |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 sat | compound:prt |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wept | cc |
| 9 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sat | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wept | cc |
| 11 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wept | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 had | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 had | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sat | conj |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 tears | det |
| 18 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 tears | amod |
| 19 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 had | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 weep | mark |
| 21 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 had | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 went | nsubj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sat | conj |
| 25 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 24 went | advmod |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 world | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 world | det |
| 28 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 world | amod |
| 29 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 seek | mark |
| 31 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 went | advcl |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 husband | nmod:poss |
| 33 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 seek | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | the poor bride | mother | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | weep | past | the poor bride not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | weep | past | the poor bride not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have | past | mother | no more tears | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Patient | ||||
| 5 | weep | to-infinitive | mother not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | go | past | mother | the wide world | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_Location | |||
| 7 | seek | to-infinitive | mother not said here | mother's husband | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=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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