Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 10
He went on farther and farther till he saw before him a forest, and on the borders of that forest stood a hut on hens' legs.
Who acts: man, borders · What happens: go, see, stand · To what, where: forest, hut, legs
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, borders), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 farther | case |
| 4 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 farther | cc |
| 6 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 farther | conj |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 saw | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | advcl |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 forest | det |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stood | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stood | cc |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 borders | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 borders | det |
| 18 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 stood | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 forest | case |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 forest | det |
| 21 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 borders | nmod |
| 22 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 hut | det |
| 24 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stood | obj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 legs | case |
| 26 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 legs | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 26 hens | case |
| 28 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 stood | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | man | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | man | a forest | before husband | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer forest=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | stand | past | the borders of that forest | a hut | hens's legs | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hut=Theme on leg=Destination |
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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