Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 97
Presently Ivan mounted on to the haystack and began to play.
Who acts: Ivan · What happens: mount, begin, play · To what, where: haystack
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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 mounted | advmod |
| 2 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mounted | nsubj |
| 3 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 haystack | case |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 haystack | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 haystack | det |
| 7 | haystack | haystack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mounted | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 began | cc |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mounted | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 play | mark |
| 11 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | Ivan | the haystack | presently property | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on haystack=Destination | |||
| 2 | begin | past | Ivan not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | play | to-infinitive | Ivan not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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