Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 101
The parson darted away as fast as his legs could carry him toward the village, and oh! what a sight he looked as he dashed through the streets!
Who acts: parson, legs, sight · What happens: dart away, carry, look, dash · To what, where: parson, streets
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parson, legs, sight), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 parson | det |
| 2 | parson | parson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 darted | nsubj |
| 3 | darted | dart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 darted | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 fast | advmod |
| 6 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 darted | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 carry | mark |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 legs | nmod:poss |
| 9 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 carry | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 carry | aux |
| 11 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fast | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 carry | obj |
| 13 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 15 village | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 village | det |
| 15 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carry | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 what | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 what | cc |
| 18 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 20 what | discourse |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 oh | punct |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 darted | parataxis |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 sight | det |
| 22 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 looked | nsubj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 looked | nsubj |
| 24 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 what | acl:relcl |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 dashed | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 dashed | nsubj |
| 27 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 looked | advcl |
| 28 | through | through | ADP | _ | 30 streets | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 streets | det |
| 30 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 dashed | obl |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 darted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dart away | past | the parson | away, fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | could | parson's legs | parson | toward the village | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | look | past | a sight | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | dash | past | parson | the streets | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through street=Trajectory |
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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