Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 35
They rummaged among the glass, but there was no money.
Who acts: prayers, money · What happens: rummage, be · To what, where: glass
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 (prayers, money), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rummaged | nsubj |
| 2 | rummaged | rummage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | among | among | ADP | _ | 5 glass | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 glass | det |
| 5 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rummaged | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 was | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 was | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rummaged | parataxis |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 money | det |
| 11 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rummaged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rummage | past | prayers = prayer | the glass | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent among glass=Location | ||||
| 2 | be | past | no money | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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