Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 60
At last the smoke inside the whale made it feel so uncomfortable that it opened its mouth, swam ashore, and went asleep on the beach.
Who acts: whale · What happens: make, feel, open, swim, go · To what, where: whale, last smoke, mouth, beach
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 (whale), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 smoke | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 smoke | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 smoke | det |
| 4 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 5 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 7 whale | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 whale | det |
| 7 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 smoke | nmod |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | obj |
| 10 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 made | xcomp |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 uncomfortable | advmod |
| 12 | uncomfortable | uncomfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 feel | xcomp |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 opened | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 opened | nsubj |
| 15 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 uncomfortable | advcl |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 opened | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 swam | punct |
| 19 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 opened | conj |
| 20 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 19 swam | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 went | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 went | cc |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | conj |
| 24 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 went | xcomp |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 beach | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 beach | det |
| 27 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 went | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | whale | the last smoke inside the whale | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | infinitive | whale not said here | uncomfortable property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | open | past | whale | whale's mouth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | ||||
| 4 | swim | past | whale not said here | ashore property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go | past | the beach | asleep property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on beach=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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