Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 67
Ivan Golik took up the bow, placed the arrow across it, and drew the bow so that the arrow split into twelve pieces and the bow burst.
Who acts: Ivan, arrow · What happens: take up, place, draw, split · To what, where: bow, arrow, twelve pieces
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, arrow), 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 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | Golik | Golik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ivan | flat |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bow | det |
| 6 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 placed | punct |
| 8 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 arrow | det |
| 10 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 placed | obj |
| 11 | across | across | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 placed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 drew | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 drew | cc |
| 15 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bow | det |
| 17 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drew | obj |
| 18 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 22 split | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 so | fixed |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 arrow | det |
| 21 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 split | nsubj |
| 22 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 drew | advcl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 pieces | case |
| 24 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 pieces | nummod |
| 25 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 split | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 burst | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 burst | det |
| 28 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 burst | compound |
| 29 | burst | burst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pieces | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | Ivan | the bow | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | place | past | Ivan not said here | the arrow | bow | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme | |||
| 3 | draw | past | Ivan not said here | the bow | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme | ||||
| 4 | split | past | the arrow | into twelve pieces and the bow burst result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into piece=Result |
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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