Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 14
The man stared at this awful Ancient with terror, for never in his life had he seen anything like it. "
Who acts: man, life · What happens: stare, have, see · To what, where: anything
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, life), 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 stared | nsubj |
| 3 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 Ancient | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 Ancient | det |
| 6 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Ancient | amod |
| 7 | Ancient | ancient | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stared | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 terror | case |
| 9 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Ancient | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 had | mark |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 life | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 life | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 life | nmod:poss |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stared | parataxis |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 seen | nsubj |
| 18 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 had | ccomp |
| 19 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 seen | obj |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 anything | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stared | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | past | the man | at this awful Ancient with terror | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ancient=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | man's life | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | participle | man | anything | like life | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
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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