Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 67
He gave chase to the ox, but whenever he was getting close to one side of it, the other side of it got farther away from him.
Who acts: eagle, getting · What happens: give, get · To what, where: chase, ox, other 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 (eagle, getting), 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 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 ox | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ox | det |
| 6 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 getting | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 getting | cc |
| 9 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 getting | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 getting | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 getting | aux |
| 12 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 got | csubj |
| 13 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 getting | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 side | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 side | nummod |
| 16 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 close | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 side | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 side | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 side | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 side | amod |
| 22 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 getting | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 side | nmod |
| 25 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | parataxis |
| 26 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 away | advmod |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 got | advmod |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 away | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | eagle | chase | the ox | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent chase=Theme to ox=Recipient | |||
| 2 | get | past · progressive | eagle | the other side of ox | close, whenever property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | get | past | getting | away property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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