Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 86
Then the old she-dragon awoke and came to the door, and was amazed at the sight of the field, which was now all stubble, for the corn had been cut.
Who acts: old, field · What happens: awake, come, be, cut, sight · To what, where: door, sight, stubble, corn, field
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 (old, field), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 awoke | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 old | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 awoke | nsubj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 awoke | nsubj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 dragon | punct |
| 6 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 awoke | nsubj |
| 7 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 awoke | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 door | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 amazed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 amazed | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 amazed | cop |
| 16 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 awoke | parataxis |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 sight | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sight | det |
| 19 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 amazed | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 field | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 field | det |
| 22 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sight | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 stubble | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 stubble | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 stubble | cop |
| 26 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 stubble | advmod |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 stubble | det |
| 28 | stubble | stubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 field | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 cut | punct |
| 30 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 35 cut | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 corn | det |
| 32 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 cut | aux |
| 34 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 cut | aux:pass |
| 35 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 awoke | parataxis |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | the old | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the old not said here | the door | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the sight of the field and all stubble | amazed property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the field and all stubble | all stubble | now | tree rules | |||
| 5 | cut | past · perfect · passive | the corn | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 6 | sight | the field and all stubble | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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