Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 1, sentence 93
After that they went along by the seashore till they came to a man who had caught two pike.
Who acts: shirt · What happens: go along, come, catch · To what, where: man
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 (shirt), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 went | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | along | along | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 seashore | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 seashore | det |
| 8 | seashore | seashore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 came | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 man | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 caught | aux |
| 17 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 man | acl:relcl |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 pike | nummod |
| 19 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 caught | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go along | past | shirt | after that | by the seashore; along property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by seashore=Location | |||
| 2 | come | past | shirt | to a man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to man=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | catch | past · perfect · passive | a man | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary pike=Theme |
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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