Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 14
He himself it was who took his daughter's ring and flew over the sea early this morning, and dropped it in the water.
Who acts: Ivan · What happens: be, fly, drop · To what, where: sea, ring, water
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 took | nsubj |
| 2 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 1 He | nmod:unmarked |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 He | conj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | cop |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ring | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 daughter | case |
| 10 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 flew | cc |
| 12 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 sea | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sea | det |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flew | obl |
| 16 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 flew | advmod |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 morning | det |
| 18 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flew | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dropped | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 dropped | cc |
| 21 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 dropped | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 water | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 water | det |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dropped | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Ivan | take property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | Ivan not said here | the sea | morning | early property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=Location | ||
| 3 | drop | past | Ivan not said here | ring | the water | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in water=Destination |
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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