Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 119
So I went into a forest, my children, and dug a hole beneath an oak, and there I hid my little store of money.
Who acts: I · What happens: go, dig, hide · To what, where: forest, hole, oak, little store
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 forest | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 forest | det |
| 6 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 children | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 children | nmod:poss |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 forest | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dug | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dug | cc |
| 12 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hole | det |
| 14 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dug | obj |
| 15 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 17 oak | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 oak | det |
| 17 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dug | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hid | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hid | cc |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 hid | expl |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 hid | nsubj |
| 22 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 store | nmod:poss |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 store | amod |
| 25 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hid | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 money | case |
| 27 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 store | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | I | a forest and my children | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | dig | past | I not said here | a hole | a oak | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hole=Theme beneath oak=Location | |||
| 3 | hide | past | I | my little store of money | there | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent store=Patient |
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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