Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 8
So he took the dog and tied it up, and immediately he was turned to stone, and the dog too, for the old woman was a pagan witch.
Who acts: brother, old woman · What happens: take, tie up, turn, be · To what, where: dog, brother, stone
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 (brother, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dog | det |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tied | cc |
| 7 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 tied | obj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 tied | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 turned | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 turned | cc |
| 12 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 15 turned | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 turned | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 turned | aux:pass |
| 15 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 stone | case |
| 17 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turned | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dog | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 dog | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 dog | det |
| 21 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | parataxis |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 witch | punct |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 witch | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 woman | det |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 woman | amod |
| 27 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 witch | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 witch | cop |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 witch | det |
| 30 | pagan | pagan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 witch | amod |
| 31 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | parataxis |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | brother | the dog | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dog=Destination | ||||
| 2 | tie up | past | brother not said here | dog | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | turn | past · passive | brother | stone | immediately property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to stone=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | is | past | the old woman | for a pagan witch | 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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