Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 85
But the prince had gone to sleep long before in the pig-sty.
Who acts: prince · What happens: go, sleep · To what, where: pig sty
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 (prince), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 gone | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 sleep | mark |
| 7 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 gone | advcl |
| 8 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 before | advmod |
| 9 | before | before | ADV | _ | 7 sleep | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 sty | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sty | det |
| 12 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sty | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 pig | punct |
| 14 | sty | sty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sleep | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | the prince | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | the pig sty | before property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in sty=Location |
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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