Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 92
A moment afterward the son of the Mother of the Winds came flying up, and he smelt out the bride, and said, "What's this, mother?
Who acts: moment, God · What happens: come, fly up, smelt out, say, be · To what, where: bride, mother, this · 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 (moment, God), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 moment | det |
| 2 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 3 | afterward | afterward | ADP | _ | 5 son | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 son | det |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 moment | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Mother | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Mother | det |
| 8 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Winds | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Winds | det |
| 11 | Winds | Wind | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 Mother | nmod |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 came | xcomp |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 flying | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 smelt | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 smelt | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 smelt | nsubj |
| 18 | smelt | smelt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 came | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 smelt | compound:prt |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bride | det |
| 21 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 smelt | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 came | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 this | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 this | punct |
| 27 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 29 this | nsubj |
| 28 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 this | cop |
| 29 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 said | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 mother | punct |
| 31 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 said | obl |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a moment afterward the son of the Mother of the Winds | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fly up | gerund | a moment afterward the son of the Mother of the Winds not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | smelt out | past | God | the bride | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: ask | past | mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | this | 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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