Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 109
Then he cried again, "Little ram, little ram, scatter money!"--But the ram stood there stock-still and did nothing.
Who acts: husband, ram, there · What happens: cry, stand, do, stock · To what, where: Little ram, stock, nothing
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 (husband, ram, there), 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 cried | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 cried | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ram | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 ram | punct |
| 7 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ram | amod |
| 8 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cried | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ram | punct |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ram | amod |
| 11 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ram | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 money | punct |
| 13 | scatter | scat | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 money | amod |
| 14 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ram | parataxis |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 money | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 money | punct |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 stood | punct |
| 18 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 stood | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ram | det |
| 20 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stood | nsubj |
| 21 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cried | conj |
| 22 | there | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Typo=Yes | 23 stock | nmod:poss |
| 23 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stood | obj |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 stock | punct |
| 25 | still | still | ADV | _ | 21 stood | advmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 did | cc |
| 27 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 stood | conj |
| 28 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 27 did | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | husband | Little ram and little ram | then; again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | stand | past | the ram | there's stock | still | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stock=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | do | past | the ram not said here | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | stock | there = they | nom stock «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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