Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 188
He began to pull and tug at them, but they didn't get up.
Who acts: brother, oxen · What happens: begin, pull, tug, not get up
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 (brother, oxen), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 pull | mark |
| 4 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 began | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tug | cc |
| 6 | tug | tug | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pull | conj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 tug | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 get | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 get | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 get | advmod |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 began | parataxis |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 get | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | brother | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | pull | to-infinitive | brother not said here | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tug | infinitive | brother not said here | at oxen = ox | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not get up | past · do-support | oxen = ox | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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