Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 65
They fell down to the ground for fright, and were like dead men, but the prince's younger son crept out of the hole in the fish that the huntsmen had made, went out upon the shore, and sat down.
Who acts: fishes, younger son, fish · What happens: fall down, be, creep out, make, go out, sit down · To what, where: hole, huntsmen
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 (fishes, younger son, fish), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 fell | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 ground | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ground | det |
| 6 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fell | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 fright | case |
| 8 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ground | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 men | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 men | cc |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 men | cop |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 men | case |
| 13 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 men | amod |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fell | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 crept | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 crept | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 prince | det |
| 18 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 son | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 prince | case |
| 20 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 son | amod |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 crept | nsubj |
| 22 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fell | parataxis |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 hole | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 hole | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hole | det |
| 26 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 crept | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 fish | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 fish | det |
| 29 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hole | nmod |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 made | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 huntsmen | det |
| 32 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 made | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 made | aux |
| 34 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 fish | acl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 went | punct |
| 36 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 crept | conj |
| 37 | out | out | ADV | _ | 36 went | advmod |
| 38 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 40 shore | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 shore | det |
| 40 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 went | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 sat | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 sat | cc |
| 43 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fell | conj |
| 44 | down | down | ADP | _ | 43 sat | compound:prt |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall down | past | fishes = fish | to the ground for fright; down property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | like dead men | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | creep out | past | the prince's younger son | the hole in the fish | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hole=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | past · perfect · passive | the fish not said here | the huntsmen | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 5 | go out | past | the prince's younger son not said here | upon the shore; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | sit down | past | fishes = fish not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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