Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 102
The people didn't know him, and--scandalized that anybody should run about in rags and tatters so that his whole body could be seen--began to hoot him.
Who acts: people, anybody · What happens: not know, scandalize, run about, see, begin, hoot · To what, where: parson, rags, whole body
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 (people, anybody), 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 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 know | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 scandalized | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 scandalized | cc |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 scandalized | punct |
| 10 | scandalized | scandalize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | parataxis |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 run | mark |
| 12 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 run | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 run | aux |
| 14 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 scandalized | ccomp |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 run | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 rags | case |
| 17 | rags | rag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 run | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tatters | cc |
| 19 | tatters | tatter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 rags | conj |
| 20 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 27 seen | mark |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 seen | mark |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 body | nmod:poss |
| 23 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 body | amod |
| 24 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 seen | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 seen | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 seen | aux:pass |
| 27 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 run | advcl |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 29 began | punct |
| 29 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 scandalized | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 hoot | mark |
| 31 | hoot | hoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 began | xcomp |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 hoot | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | the people | parson | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | scandalize | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | run about | should | anybody | rags and tatters | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rag=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | see | could · passive | parson's whole body | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 6 | hoot | to-infinitive | parson | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme |
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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