Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 79
At last Ivan was tired, so he left off playing and went into the town to seek service.
Who acts: Ivan · What happens: be, leave off, play, go, seek · To what, where: last Ivan, town, service
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 (Ivan), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 Ivan | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Ivan | amod |
| 3 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tired | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tired | cop |
| 5 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 left | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 left | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 left | nsubj |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tired | parataxis |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 left | compound:prt |
| 11 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 left | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 left | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 town | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 town | det |
| 16 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 seek | mark |
| 18 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 went | advcl |
| 19 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seek | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | last Ivan | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave off | past | Ivan | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | play | gerund | Ivan not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | past | Ivan not said here | the town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | seek | to-infinitive | Ivan not said here | service | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=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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