Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 27
Then he regretted that he had brought all the pancakes with him, so he threw them away into the ditch.
Who acts: man · What happens: regret, bring, throw away · To what, where: pancakes, ditch
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), 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 regretted | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 regretted | nsubj |
| 3 | regretted | regret | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 brought | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 brought | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 brought | aux |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 regretted | ccomp |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 pancakes | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pancakes | det |
| 10 | pancakes | pancake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 brought | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pancakes | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 threw | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 threw | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 threw | nsubj |
| 16 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 regretted | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 threw | obj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 threw | advmod |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 ditch | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ditch | det |
| 21 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 threw | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 regretted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | regret | past | man | then | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | bring | past · perfect | man | all pancakes | with Devil | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pancake=Theme | |||
| 3 | throw away | past | man | pancakes = pancake | into the ditch result; away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into ditch=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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