Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 10
Then Armless lay down on the ground and kicked the oak with his feet three miles off.
Who acts: Armless · What happens: lie down, kick · To what, where: ground, oak
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Armless), 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 | 3 lay | advmod |
| 2 | Armless | Armless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 lay | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 kicked | cc |
| 9 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 oak | det |
| 11 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kicked | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 feet | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 feet | nmod:poss |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 kicked | obl |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 miles | nummod |
| 16 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 off | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | off | off | ADV | _ | 9 kicked | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | past | Armless | the ground | then | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location | ||
| 2 | kick | past | Armless not said here | the oak | with Armless's feet; off property | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent oak=Patient with foot=Instrument |
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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