Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 86
She went on till she came to a lonely little house, and she went and begged a night's lodging from the old woman who dwelt there, who was the Mother of the Winds.
Who acts: mother, old woman · What happens: go on, come, go, beg, dwell, be · To what, where: lonely little house, lodging, Mother
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 (mother, old woman), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 6 came | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 9 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 house | amod |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 house | amod |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 begged | cc |
| 17 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 went | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 night | det |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lodging | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 night | case |
| 21 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 begged | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 woman | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 woman | det |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 woman | amod |
| 25 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 begged | obl |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 dwelt | nsubj |
| 27 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 woman | acl:relcl |
| 28 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 dwelt | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Mother | punct |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 Mother | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 Mother | cop |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Mother | det |
| 33 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 woman | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Winds | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Winds | det |
| 36 | Winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 Mother | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | mother | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | mother | a lonely little house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | go | past | mother | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | past | mother not said here | a night's lodging | from the old woman and the Mother | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent lodging=Recipient | |||
| 5 | dwell | past | the old woman and the Mother | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | the old woman and the Mother | the Mother | of the Winds | 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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