Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 95
A forest lay along the road, and in this forest the old man met a nobleman driving along.
Who acts: forest, nobleman · What happens: meet, drive · To what, where: nobleman, forest
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 (forest, nobleman), 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 forest | det |
| 2 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 met | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lay | ADV | _ | 6 road | advmod |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 6 road | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 road | det |
| 6 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 forest | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 met | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 met | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 forest | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 forest | det |
| 11 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 met | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 met | nsubj |
| 15 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 nobleman | det |
| 17 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 met | obj |
| 18 | driving | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 nobleman | acl |
| 19 | along | along | ADV | _ | 18 driving | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | a forest along the road | a nobleman | this forest | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobleman=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | drive | gerund | a nobleman not said here | along property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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