Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 97
Again he went to the fence and fell a-weeping.
Who acts: house · What happens: go, fall · To what, where: fence, weeping
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 (house), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 fence | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fence | det |
| 6 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fell | cc |
| 8 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 weeping | det |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 a | punct |
| 11 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | house | the fence | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fence=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | fall | past | house not said here | a weeping | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient weeping=Result |
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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