Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 170
He shook his kerchief, and immediately a vast sea was between him and the pursuer.
Who acts: foal, vast sea · What happens: shake, be · To what, where: kerchief
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 (foal, vast sea), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shook | nsubj |
| 2 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 kerchief | nmod:poss |
| 4 | kerchief | kerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shook | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 him | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 him | cc |
| 7 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 13 him | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 9 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sea | amod |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 him | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 him | cop |
| 12 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shook | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pursuer | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pursuer | det |
| 16 | pursuer | pursuer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 him | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | foal | foal's kerchief | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent kerchief=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | a vast sea | between brother; immediately property | tree rules |
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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