Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 85
They danced and danced till the poor cattle were clean worn out and at the last gasp.
Who acts: cattle · What happens: dance, wear out
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 (cattle), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 danced | nsubj |
| 2 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 danced | cc |
| 4 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 danced | conj |
| 5 | till | till | ADP | _ | 8 cattle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cattle | det |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cattle | amod |
| 8 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 worn | obl |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 worn | aux:pass |
| 10 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 worn | amod |
| 11 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 danced | parataxis |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 worn | compound:prt |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gasp | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 gasp | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 gasp | det |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 gasp | amod |
| 17 | gasp | gasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 worn | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | cattle | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | dance | past | cattle not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wear out | past · passive | till the poor cattle | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative» |
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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