Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 95

On the third day the neat-herd again drove the cattle into the pastures, but this time the parson followed after them, and went and hid himself behind the hedge near to which Ivan was watching the cattle graze.

Who acts: neat herd, parson, Ivan · What happens: drive, follow, go, hide, watch · To what, where: cattle, pastures, parson, hedge, cattle graze

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 (neat herd, parson, 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drove	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 herd	det
6	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 herd	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 neat	punct
8	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drove	nsubj
9	again	again	ADV	_	8 herd	advmod
10	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cattle	det
12	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drove	obj
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 pastures	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pastures	det
15	pastures	pasture	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 drove	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 followed	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 followed	cc
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 time	det
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 followed	obl:unmarked
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 parson	det
21	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 followed	nsubj
22	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 drove	conj
23	after	after	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 followed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 went	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 went	cc
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 drove	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hid	cc
29	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 went	conj
30	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 hid	obj
31	behind	behind	ADP	_	33 hedge	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 hedge	det
33	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hid	obl
34	near	near	ADV	_	39 watching	advmod
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 which	case
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 watching	obl
37	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 watching	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 watching	aux
39	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 hid	advcl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 graze	det
41	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 graze	compound
42	graze	graze	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 watching	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	past	the neat herd	the cattle	the pastures	day		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cattle=Theme into pasture=Trajectory
2	follow	past	the parson			after cattle; time		vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after they=Theme
3	go	past						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hide	past		parson	the hedge			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient behind hedge=Location
5	watch	past · progressive	Ivan	the cattle graze			near property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent graze=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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