Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 129

Then they ran up to him, and said, "Fear not! there is not a single loose grain anywhere.

Who acts: mice, single loose grain · What happens: run up, say, not be · To what, where: stalk, Fear · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (mice, single loose grain), 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	3 ran	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 ran	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ran	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Fear	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Fear	punct
12	Fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 Fear	advmod
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 Fear	punct
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 is	expl
16	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 is	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 grain	det
19	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 grain	amod
20	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 grain	amod
21	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 is	nsubj
22	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 is	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run up	past	mice = mouse		stalk		then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result
2	say speech: express	past	mice = mouse not said here	Fear					tree rules
3	not be in a quote	present	a single loose grain			there		anywhere property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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