Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 76

One man who had a whole basket of eggs on his head danced them into bits, and danced and danced till he looked like the yolk of an egg himself.

Who acts: One man, whole basket, man · What happens: have, dance, look · To what, where: eggs, head

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 (One man, whole basket, man), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 man	nummod
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 basket	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 basket	amod
7	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 danced	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 eggs	case
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 basket	nmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 head	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 head	nmod:poss
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 danced	obl
13	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	ccomp
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 danced	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	16 bits	case
16	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 danced	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 danced	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 danced	cc
19	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 danced	cc
21	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 danced	conj
22	till	till	SCONJ	_	24 looked	mark
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	21 danced	advcl
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 yolk	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 yolk	det
27	yolk	yolk	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 looked	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 egg	case
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 egg	det
30	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 yolk	nmod
31	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 egg	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	One man				tree rules
2	dance	past	a whole basket of eggs	eggs = egg	man's head	into bits	vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme they=Destination into bit=Trajectory
3	dance	past	One man not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	dance	past	One man not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	look	past	man			like the yolk of a egg man	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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