Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 144
The wife scudded about as nimbly as a fly, and spread a cloth out on the floor without a word.
Who acts: wife · What happens: scud, spread out · To what, where: cloth, 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 (wife), 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 wife | det |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scudded | nsubj |
| 3 | scudded | scud | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 nimbly | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 nimbly | advmod |
| 6 | nimbly | nimbly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 scudded | xcomp |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 fly | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fly | det |
| 9 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nimbly | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 spread | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 spread | cc |
| 12 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scudded | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cloth | det |
| 14 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spread | obj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 spread | compound:prt |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 floor | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 floor | det |
| 18 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spread | obl |
| 19 | without | without | ADP | _ | 21 word | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 word | det |
| 21 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spread | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 scudded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scud | past | the wife | nimbly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spread out | past | the wife not said here | a cloth | the floor | without a word | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme on floor=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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