Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 128
So off she set and ran and ran, and they knew she was coming, for the earth quaked and yawned beneath her.
Who acts: dragon, lad, earth · What happens: set, run, know, come, quake, yawn · 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 (dragon, lad, earth), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 off | advmod |
| 2 | off | off | ADV | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ran | cc |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ran | cc |
| 8 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ran | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knew | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 knew | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 knew | nsubj |
| 12 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | parataxis |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 coming | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 coming | aux |
| 15 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 knew | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 quaked | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 quaked | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 earth | det |
| 19 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 quaked | nsubj |
| 20 | quaked | quake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 knew | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 yawned | cc |
| 22 | yawned | yawn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 quaked | conj |
| 23 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 yawned | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | dragon | off property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | run | past | dragon not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run | past | dragon not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | know | past | lad | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | come | past · progressive | dragon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | quake | past | the earth | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | yawn | past | the earth not said here | beneath dragon | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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