Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 88
So they turned aside, and the mice swept by in their hosts, but the hindmost mouse turned round and said, "Thanks to thee, Ivan Golik, thou hast saved my host from perishing; I will save thine also."
Who acts: IVAN, hindmost mouse · What happens: turn, sweep, turn round, say, save, perish · To what, where: mice, thou · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (IVAN, hindmost mouse), 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 | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mice | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 mice | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mice | det |
| 8 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turned | obl |
| 9 | swept | sweep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 mice | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 hosts | case |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 hosts | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hosts | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hosts | host | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 swept | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 turned | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 turned | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mouse | det |
| 17 | hindmost | hindmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 mouse | amod |
| 18 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 turned | nsubj |
| 19 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | parataxis |
| 20 | round | round | ADV | _ | 19 turned | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 turned | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Thanks | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Thanks | punct |
| 25 | Thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 said | ccomp |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 thee | case |
| 27 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 Thanks | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Ivan | punct |
| 29 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Thanks | vocative |
| 30 | Golik | Golik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Ivan | flat |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 saved | punct |
| 32 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 34 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 saved | aux |
| 34 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 turned | conj |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 host | nmod:poss |
| 36 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 saved | obj |
| 37 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 38 perishing | mark |
| 38 | perishing | perish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 saved | advcl |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 save | punct |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 save | nsubj |
| 41 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 save | aux |
| 42 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 turned | parataxis |
| 43 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 44 also | nmod:poss |
| 44 | also | also | ADV | _ | 42 save | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 42 save | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 save | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | IVAN | the mice | aside property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sweep | participle | the mice not said here | by IVAN's hosts | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by host=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | turn round | past | the hindmost mouse | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the hindmost mouse not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | save in a quote | present · perfect · passive | thou | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary host=Theme | |||||
| 6 | perish in a quote | gerund | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 7 | save in a quote | future | the hindmost mouse = mouse | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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