Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 173

He waved it on the left side, and immediately between them and the pursuer stood a forest so thick that not even a little mouse could have squeezed through it.

Who acts: foal, forest, little mouse · What happens: wave, stand, squeeze · To what, where: handkerchief, left side

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, forest, little mouse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg29672:1761): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

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 waved	nsubj
2	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waved	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 side	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 side	det
6	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 side	amod
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waved	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 them	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 them	cc
10	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	12 them	advmod
11	between	between	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stood	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 pursuer	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pursuer	det
15	pursuer	pursuer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 them	conj
16	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 waved	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 forest	det
18	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stood	nsubj
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 thick	advmod
20	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 forest	amod
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 squeezed	mark
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 mouse	advmod
23	even	even	ADV	_	26 mouse	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 mouse	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 mouse	amod
26	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 squeezed	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 squeezed	aux
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 squeezed	aux
29	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 thick	advcl
30	through	through	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 squeezed	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 waved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wave	past	foal	handkerchief	the left side		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	stand	past	a forest			between bridegrooms = bridegroom	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between they=Location
3	squeeze	could · perfect	a little mouse		handkerchief		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through it=Trajectory

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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