Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 128
So they scampered all about, and there was not a mouse which did not look under every stalk of straw.
Who acts: IVAN, mouse · What happens: scamper, be, not look
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (IVAN, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 scampered | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 scampered | nsubj |
| 3 | scampered | scamper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 about | advmod |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 scampered | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 was | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 was | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scampered | parataxis |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 mouse | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mouse | det |
| 12 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | nsubj |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 look | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 look | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 look | advmod |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 mouse | acl:relcl |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 stalk | case |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 stalk | det |
| 19 | stalk | stalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 look | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 straw | case |
| 21 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stalk | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 scampered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scamper | past | IVAN | about property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | past | a mouse | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not look | past · do-support | a mouse | under every stalk of straw | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent under stalk=Theme |
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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