Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 9
Time passed, and the younger brother came back to the maple-tree by the cross-roads and saw that blood was dripping from the blade of the knife.
Who acts: younger brother, blood · What happens: pass, come back, see, drip · To what, where: maple tree, blade · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (younger brother, blood), 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 | Time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 brother | det |
| 6 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 brother | amod |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 passed | parataxis |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 tree | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 12 | maple | maple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tree | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 maple | punct |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 cross-roads | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cross-roads | det |
| 17 | cross-roads | cross-road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 came | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 saw | cc |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 dripping | mark |
| 21 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dripping | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 dripping | aux |
| 23 | dripping | drip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 saw | ccomp |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 blade | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 blade | det |
| 26 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dripping | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 knife | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 knife | det |
| 29 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 blade | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come back | past | the younger brother | the maple tree | by the cross-roads | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | see | past | the younger brother not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | drip | past · progressive | blood | the blade of the knife | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from blade=Source |
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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