Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 74
Some were buying pancakes, others baskets of bright-coloured eggs, others again pitchers of _kvas_.
Who acts: Some · What happens: buy · To what, where: pancakes
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 (Some), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 buying | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 buying | aux |
| 3 | buying | buy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | pancakes | pancake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 buying | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 baskets | punct |
| 6 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 baskets | compound |
| 7 | baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pancakes | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 eggs | case |
| 9 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 coloured | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 bright | punct |
| 11 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eggs | amod |
| 12 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 baskets | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 others | punct |
| 14 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pancakes | conj |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 buying | advmod |
| 16 | pitchers | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 buying | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 kvas | case |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 of | punct |
| 19 | kvas | kvas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pitchers | nmod |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 buying | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 buying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past · progressive | Some | pancakes and others baskets of coloured eggs and others | again | pitchers of kvas obl | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pancake=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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