Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 78
The whole town was turned upside down: the dogs, the swine, the cocks and hens, everything that had life came out and danced.
Who acts: dogs · What happens: turn down, have, come out, dance · To what, where: whole town, life
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 (dogs), 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 | 3 town | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 town | amod |
| 3 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turned | aux:pass |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | upside | upside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | obj |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 turned | advmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 dogs | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dogs | det |
| 10 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 came | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 swine | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 swine | det |
| 13 | swine | swine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dogs | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cocks | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cocks | det |
| 16 | cocks | cock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dogs | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hens | cc |
| 18 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cocks | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 everything | punct |
| 20 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 24 came | nsubj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 everything | acl:relcl |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | obj |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turned | parataxis |
| 25 | out | out | ADV | _ | 24 came | advmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 danced | cc |
| 27 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 came | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn down | past · passive | the whole town | down property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | life | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient | |||||
| 3 | come out | past | the dogs and the swine and the cocks and hens | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | dance | past | the dogs and the swine and the cocks and hens not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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