Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 11
The man went into this hut and was filled with astonishment, for there lay on the floor a huge, huge old man, as grey as milk.
Who acts: man · What happens: go, fill, lay · To what, where: hut, huge huge old man, floor
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 hut | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 hut | det |
| 6 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 filled | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 filled | aux:pass |
| 9 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 astonishment | case |
| 11 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 filled | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lay | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 there | case |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 lay | obl |
| 15 | lay | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | parataxis |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 floor | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 floor | det |
| 18 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lay | obl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 20 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 man | amod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 huge | punct |
| 22 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 man | amod |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 man | amod |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lay | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 grey | punct |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 grey | case |
| 27 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lay | conj |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 milk | case |
| 29 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 grey | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the man | this hut | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hut=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | fill | past · passive | the man not said here | with astonishment | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with astonishment=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | lay | participle | a huge huge old man | the floor | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent man=Result for there=Beneficiary |
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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