Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 20
I went straight from my wife into the field and reaped my little plot of corn; but when I began to thresh it out, the Wind came and caught and scattered every bit of it in a twinkling, so that there was not a single little grain of it left.
Who acts: I, Wind, single little grain, my · What happens: go, reap, begin, thresh out, come, catch · To what, where: field, little plot, plot, bit, twinkling, corn
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 (I, Wind, single little grain, my), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 6 wife | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 wife | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 field | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 field | det |
| 9 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 reaped | cc |
| 11 | reaped | reap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 plot | nmod:poss |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 plot | amod |
| 14 | plot | plot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reaped | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 corn | case |
| 16 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 plot | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 came | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 came | cc |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 began | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 began | nsubj |
| 21 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 came | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 thresh | mark |
| 23 | thresh | thresh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 began | xcomp |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 thresh | obj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 thresh | compound:prt |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 began | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Wind | det |
| 28 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 came | nsubj |
| 29 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 caught | cc |
| 31 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 came | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 scattered | cc |
| 33 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 came | conj |
| 34 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 bit | det |
| 35 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 scattered | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 it | case |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 bit | nmod |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 twinkling | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 twinkling | det |
| 40 | twinkling | twinkling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 scattered | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 left | punct |
| 42 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 53 left | mark |
| 43 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 was | mark |
| 44 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 45 was | expl |
| 45 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 left | advcl |
| 46 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 50 grain | advmod |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 grain | det |
| 48 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 grain | amod |
| 49 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 grain | amod |
| 50 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 left | nsubj |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 it | case |
| 52 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 grain | nmod |
| 53 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 came | conj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | I | the field | from my wife | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from wife=Initial_Location into field=Destination | |||
| 2 | reap | past | I not said here | my little plot of corn | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plot=Theme | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | I | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | thresh out | to-infinitive | I not said here | plot | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come | past | the Wind | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | catch | past | the Wind not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | scatter | past | the Wind not said here | every bit of Wind | a twinkling | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bit=Theme in twinkling=Destination | |||
| 8 | be | past | a single little grain of Wind not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | leave | past | a single little grain of Wind | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 10 | plot | my | corn | nom plot «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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