Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 147
His legs remained where they were, but his trunk with his head disappeared through the roof, and fell seven miles away from the house.
Who acts: legs, trunk · What happens: remain, be, disappear, fall · To what, where: roof, house
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 (legs, trunk), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 legs | nmod:poss |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 remained | nsubj |
| 3 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 were | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 were | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remained | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 disappeared | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 disappeared | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 10 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 disappeared | nsubj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trunk | nmod |
| 14 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remained | conj |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 roof | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 roof | det |
| 17 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 disappeared | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fell | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fell | cc |
| 20 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remained | conj |
| 21 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 miles | nummod |
| 22 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 away | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 fell | advmod |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 house | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 house | det |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fell | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | Ivan's legs | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | past | legs = leg | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | disappear | past | Ivan's trunk with Ivan's head | the roof | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | Ivan's legs not said here | the house | away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from house=Initial_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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