Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 112
But as the she-dragon couldn't run herself, she sent her husband, and he began chasing them, and they knew he was coming, for they felt the earth trembling beneath his tread.
Who acts: she dragon, dragon, husband, bears, earth · What happens: not run, send, begin, chase, know, come · To what, where: dragon, husband, bears, earth, tread · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (she dragon, dragon, husband, bears), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 sent | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 run | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dragon | det |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dragon | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 she | punct |
| 6 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 run | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 run | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 run | advmod |
| 9 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sent | advcl |
| 10 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 run | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 run | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sent | nsubj |
| 13 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 husband | nmod:poss |
| 15 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sent | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 began | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 began | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 began | nsubj |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sent | conj |
| 20 | chasing | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 began | xcomp |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 chasing | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 knew | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 knew | cc |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 knew | nsubj |
| 25 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sent | parataxis |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 coming | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 coming | aux |
| 28 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 knew | ccomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 felt | punct |
| 30 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 32 felt | mark |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 felt | nsubj |
| 32 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 knew | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 earth | det |
| 34 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 felt | obj |
| 35 | trembling | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 earth | acl |
| 36 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 38 tread | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 tread | nmod:poss |
| 38 | tread | tread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 trembling | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not run | could | the she dragon | dragon | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme herself=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | send | past | dragon | dragon's husband | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | husband | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | chase | gerund | husband not said here | bears = bear | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | know | past | bears = bear | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | come | past · progressive | husband | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | feel | past | bears = bear | the earth | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Theme | ||||
| 8 | tremble | gerund | the earth not said here | husband's tread | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath tread=Location | ||||
| 9 | tread | husband | nom tread «act intransitive»: poss=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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