Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 92
When they reached the gate the leading pig stuck fast in the gateway, and wouldn't budge an inch.
Who acts: pair · What happens: reach, lead, stick, not budge · To what, where: gate, leading pig, gateway, inch
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 (pair), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gate | det |
| 5 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pig | det |
| 7 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 pig | amod |
| 8 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 9 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 pig | acl |
| 10 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 stuck | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 gateway | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gateway | det |
| 13 | gateway | gateway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stuck | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 budge | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 budge | cc |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 budge | aux |
| 17 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 budge | advmod |
| 18 | budge | budge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 reached | conj |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 inch | det |
| 20 | inch | inch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 budge | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | pair | the gate | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent gate=Beneficiary pig=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lead | gerund | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||||
| 3 | stick | participle | the leading pig not said here | the gateway | fast property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in gateway=Destination | |||
| 4 | not budge | would | pair not said here | a inch | 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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