Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 5
So the poor brother went into the fields to scare away the crows.
Who acts: poor brother · What happens: go, scare away · To what, where: fields, crows
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 (poor brother), 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 | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brother | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brother | amod |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 fields | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fields | det |
| 8 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 scare | mark |
| 10 | scare | scare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | advcl |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 scare | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 crows | det |
| 13 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 scare | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the poor brother | the fields | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | scare away | to-infinitive | the poor brother not said here | the crows | away property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus crow=Experiencer |
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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