Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 206
They sowed neither wheat nor barley, and yet they had lots and lots to eat.
Who acts: henchmen · What happens: sow, have, eat · To what, where: wheat, lots
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 (henchmen), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sowed | nsubj |
| 2 | sowed | sow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 wheat | cc:preconj |
| 4 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sowed | obj |
| 5 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 barley | cc |
| 6 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wheat | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 9 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 11 had | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sowed | conj |
| 12 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 had | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lots | cc |
| 14 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lots | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 eat | mark |
| 16 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 lots | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sow | past | henchmen = henchman | wheat nor barley | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | henchmen = henchman | lots and lots | yet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient | |||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | henchmen = henchman not said here | lots and lots not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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