Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 39
They ran against each other with their foreheads, and the serpent was very angry. "
Who acts: feet, serpent · What happens: run, be · To what, where: each
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 (feet, serpent), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | against | against | ADP | _ | 4 each | case |
| 4 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 2 ran | obl |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 each | fixed |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 foreheads | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 foreheads | nmod:poss |
| 8 | foreheads | forehead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ran | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 angry | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 angry | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 serpent | det |
| 12 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 angry | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 angry | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 angry | advmod |
| 15 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ran | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | feet = foot | each | with feet's foreheads | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against each=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | is | past | the serpent | angry property | tree rules |
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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