Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Origin of the Mole, sentence 7
Then he well covered up his son with straw, and departed to his own house.
Who acts: God · What happens: cover up, depart · To what, where: son, own house
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Origin of the Mole. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 covered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 covered | nsubj |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 covered | advmod |
| 4 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 covered | compound:prt |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 covered | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 straw | case |
| 9 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 covered | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 departed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 departed | cc |
| 12 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 covered | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 house | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 house | amod |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 departed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover up | past | God | God's son | then | with straw; well property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent son=Destination with straw=Theme | ||
| 2 | depart | past | God not said here | God's own house | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location |
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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