Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 19
Then the two pike he had thrown back into the sea came swimming to the shore. "
Who acts: pike, two pike · What happens: throw back, come, swim · To what, where: two pike, sea, shore
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 (pike, two pike), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pike | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 pike | nummod |
| 4 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thrown | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thrown | aux |
| 7 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 pike | acl:relcl |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 thrown | advmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thrown | obl |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 came | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 shore | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shore | det |
| 16 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 swimming | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw back | past · perfect | pike | the two pike not said here | into the sea result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer pike=Theme into sea=Result | |||
| 2 | come | past | the two pike | then | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | swim | gerund | the two pike not said here | the shore | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=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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