Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 19
He dragged it all the way up the ladder of his barn, when the goat disappeared, but showers and showers of money came tumbling through the ceiling.
Who acts: man, goat, showers · What happens: drag, disappear, come, tumble · To what, where: goat, ceiling
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 (man, goat, showers), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dragged | nsubj |
| 2 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dragged | obj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 way | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dragged | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 ladder | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ladder | det |
| 9 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dragged | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 barn | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 barn | nmod:poss |
| 12 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ladder | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 disappeared | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 disappeared | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 goat | det |
| 16 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 disappeared | nsubj |
| 17 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dragged | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 came | cc |
| 20 | showers | shower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 came | nsubj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 showers | cc |
| 22 | showers | shower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 showers | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 money | case |
| 24 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 showers | nmod |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 disappeared | advcl |
| 26 | tumbling | tumble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 came | xcomp |
| 27 | through | through | ADP | _ | 29 ceiling | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ceiling | det |
| 29 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tumbling | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dragged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag | past | man | goat | up the ladder of man's barn; all way obl:unmarked | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | disappear | past | the goat | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past | showers and showers of money | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | tumble | gerund | showers and showers of money not said here | the ceiling | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through ceiling=Initial_Location |
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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