Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 146
And the little ram scattered money till there were piles and piles of it. "
Who acts: piles · What happens: be · To what, where: scattered money
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 (piles), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 money | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ram | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ram | amod |
| 4 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 money | nsubj |
| 5 | scattered | scatter | ADJ | _ | 6 money | amod |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 were | mark |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 were | expl |
| 9 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 money | acl |
| 10 | piles | pile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 were | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 piles | cc |
| 12 | piles | pile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 piles | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 piles | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 money | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 money | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | piles and piles of floor | scattered money not said here | there | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot money=Theme |
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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