Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 86

In the evening Ivan drove them home, but they were so famished that they tugged at the dirty straw roofs of the huts they passed, and so got a chance mouthful or two.

Who acts: Ivan, cattle · What happens: drive, famish, tug, pass, get · To what, where: cattle, huts, chance mouthful

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, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drove	obl
4	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 drove	nsubj
5	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 drove	obj
7	home	home	ADV	_	5 drove	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 famished	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 famished	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 famished	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 famished	aux:pass
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 famished	advmod
13	famished	famish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 drove	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 tugged	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tugged	nsubj
16	tugged	tug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 famished	advcl
17	at	at	ADP	_	21 roofs	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 roofs	det
19	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 roofs	amod
20	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 roofs	compound
21	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 tugged	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 huts	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 huts	det
24	huts	hut	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 roofs	nmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 passed	nsubj
26	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 huts	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 got	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 got	cc
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 got	advmod
30	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 tugged	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 mouthful	det
32	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 mouthful	compound
33	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 got	obj
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 two	cc
35	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 mouthful	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	drive	past	Ivan	cattle	evening	home property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	famish	past · passive		cattle			tree rules
3	tug	past	cattle			at the dirty straw roofs of the huts	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at roof=Theme
4	pass	past	cattle	the huts not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Trajectory
5	get	past	cattle not said here	a chance mouthful			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouthful=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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