Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 78
So the poor fellow stooped down and kissed its bristles, and the pig ran grunting into the courtyard.
Who acts: poor fellow, pig · What happens: stoop down, kiss, run, grunt · To what, where: poor fellow, bristles, courtyard
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 (poor fellow, pig), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 kissed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fellow | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fellow | amod |
| 4 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kissed | nsubj |
| 5 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fellow | acl |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 stooped | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 kissed | cc |
| 8 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bristles | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bristles | bristle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 kissed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ran | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ran | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pig | det |
| 14 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ran | nsubj |
| 15 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 kissed | conj |
| 16 | grunting | grunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 ran | advcl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 courtyard | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 courtyard | det |
| 19 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grunting | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stoop down | participle | the poor fellow not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | kiss | past | the poor fellow | fool's bristles | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bristle=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | run | past | the pig | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | grunt | gerund | the pig not said here | the courtyard | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into courtyard=Recipient |
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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