Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 152
So the man and his wife were very happy together, and were never tired of thanking the Wind.
Who acts: man · What happens: be, not be, thank · To what, where: Wind
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 happy | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 happy | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wife | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | conj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 happy | cop |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 happy | advmod |
| 9 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 happy | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tired | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tired | cc |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 tired | cop |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 tired | advmod |
| 15 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 happy | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 17 thanking | mark |
| 17 | thanking | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 tired | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Wind | det |
| 19 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 thanking | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the man and man's wife | happy, together property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | tired property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank | gerund | the Wind | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=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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