Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 70
Even the savage, surly bears danced and danced till their legs tottered beneath them.
Who acts: surly bears · What happens: dance, totter · To what, where: savage, legs
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 (surly bears), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 savage | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 savage | det |
| 3 | savage | savage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 danced | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 savage | punct |
| 5 | surly | surly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bears | amod |
| 6 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 danced | nsubj |
| 7 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 danced | cc |
| 9 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 danced | conj |
| 10 | till | till | ADP | _ | 12 legs | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 legs | nmod:poss |
| 12 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 danced | obl |
| 13 | tottered | totter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 legs | acl |
| 14 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 tottered | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | surly bears | the savage | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dance | past | surly bears not said here | till bears's legs | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | totter | participle | bears's legs not said here | beneath bears = bear | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath they=Location |
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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