Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 149
Then he caught hold of it and shook it, and immediately the table was as full as it could hold with all manner of victuals and drink. "
Who acts: man, table · What happens: hold, shake, be · To what, where: peg
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, table), 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 | 4 hold | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hold | nsubj |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hold | aux |
| 4 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hold | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shook | cc |
| 8 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hold | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 shook | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 full | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 full | cc |
| 12 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 17 full | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 table | det |
| 14 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 full | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 full | cop |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 full | advmod |
| 17 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hold | parataxis |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 hold | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hold | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 hold | aux |
| 21 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 full | advcl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 manner | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 manner | det |
| 24 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hold | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 victuals | case |
| 26 | victuals | victual | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 manner | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 drink | cc |
| 28 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 victuals | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hold | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | man | then | of peg | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | shake | past | man not said here | peg | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the table | full, immediately property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hold | could | table | with all manner of victuals and drink | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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