Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 175
So they ate and ate, till they were full up to the ears.
Who acts: sack · What happens: eat, be
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 (sack), 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 | _ | 3 ate | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ate | nsubj |
| 3 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ate | cc |
| 5 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ate | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 full | punct |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 full | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 full | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 full | cop |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ate | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 full | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 ears | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ears | det |
| 14 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 full | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | sack | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | eat | past | sack not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | sack | to the ears; full property | tree rules |
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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