Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 7
The lark Tsar agreed to this; but the little mouse fastened her teeth in it and ran off into her hole with it, and there ate it all up.
Who acts: lark, little mouse · What happens: agree, fasten, run off, eat up · To what, where: teeth, rate, hole
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 (lark, little mouse), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lark | det |
| 2 | lark | lark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 agreed | nsubj |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 agreed | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 fastened | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 fastened | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mouse | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mouse | amod |
| 11 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fastened | nsubj |
| 12 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 agreed | parataxis |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 14 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fastened | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fastened | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ran | cc |
| 18 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fastened | conj |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 ran | compound:prt |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 hole | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hole | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ran | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hole | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 ate | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 ate | cc |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 ate | advmod |
| 28 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 agreed | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 ate | obj |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 it | det |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 ate | compound:prt |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the lark | to this | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fasten | past | the little mouse | Tsar's teeth | rate | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | |||
| 3 | run off | past | the little mouse not said here | into Tsar's hole with rate result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into hole=Result | ||||
| 4 | eat up | past | the lark not said here | rate | there | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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