Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 179
And the little ram scattered money, till there were piles and piles of it on the floor. "
Who acts: little ram · What happens: scatter, be · To what, where: money, 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 (little ram), 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 | _ | 18 floor | 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 | 18 floor | nsubj |
| 5 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ram | acl |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scattered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 were | punct |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 were | mark |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 were | expl |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 floor | cop |
| 11 | piles | pile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 were | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 piles | cc |
| 13 | piles | pile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 piles | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 piles | nmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 floor | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 floor | det |
| 18 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 floor | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 floor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scatter | participle | the little ram not said here | money | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the little ram | the floor | 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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