Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 23
My little plot of corn was my all-in-all, and in the sweat of my brow did I reap and thresh it; but the Wind came and blew it all away, so that not a trace of it is to be found in the wide world.
Who acts: I, Wind, My · What happens: reap, thresh, come, blow away, find, plot · To what, where: sweat, plot, Wind, trace, wide world, 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, 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 plot | nmod:poss |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 plot | amod |
| 3 | plot | plot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 corn | case |
| 5 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plot | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 all | cop |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 all | nmod:poss |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 plot | conj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 all | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 all | case |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 in | punct |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 all | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 reap | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 reap | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 sweat | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sweat | det |
| 17 | sweat | sweat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 reap | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 brow | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 brow | nmod:poss |
| 20 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sweat | nmod |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 reap | aux |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 reap | nsubj |
| 23 | reap | reap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 all | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 thresh | cc |
| 25 | thresh | thresh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 reap | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 thresh | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 came | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 came | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Wind | det |
| 30 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 came | nsubj |
| 31 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 plot | parataxis |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 blew | cc |
| 33 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 came | conj |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 blew | obj |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 it | det |
| 36 | away | away | ADV | _ | 33 blew | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 found | punct |
| 38 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 48 found | mark |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 so | fixed |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 trace | advmod |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 trace | det |
| 42 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 found | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 it | case |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 trace | nmod |
| 45 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 found | aux:pass |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 found | mark |
| 47 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 48 found | aux:pass |
| 48 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 came | conj |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 world | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 world | det |
| 51 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 world | amod |
| 52 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 found | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 plot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reap | past · do-support | I | the sweat of my brow | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | thresh | infinitive | I not said here | plot | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the Wind | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | blow away | past | the Wind not said here | Wind | away property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 5 | find | present · passive | a trace of Wind | the wide world | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 6 | 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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