Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 208

What my mouth couldn't hold ran down my beard.

Who acts: mouth · What happens: not hold, run down · To what, where: beard

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 (mouth), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 ran	nsubj
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mouth	nmod:poss
3	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hold	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hold	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 hold	advmod
6	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 What	acl:relcl
7	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 ran	compound:prt
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 beard	nmod:poss
10	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ran	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hold	could	my mouth						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run down	past		my beard					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location beard=Theme

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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