Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 48
The simple fellow did not perceive their malice and cunning, and he got so drunk that he could not move from the place, but went to sleep where he was.
Who acts: simple fellow, fellow · What happens: not perceive, get, not move, go, sleep, be · To what, where: malice, place
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 (simple fellow, fellow), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fellow | det |
| 2 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fellow | amod |
| 3 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 perceive | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 perceive | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 perceive | advmod |
| 6 | perceive | perceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 malice | nmod:poss |
| 8 | malice | malice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 perceive | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cunning | cc |
| 10 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 malice | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 got | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 got | nsubj |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 perceive | parataxis |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 drunk | advmod |
| 16 | drunk | drunk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 got | xcomp |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 move | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 move | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 move | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 move | advmod |
| 21 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 drunk | advcl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 place | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 place | det |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 move | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 went | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 went | cc |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 got | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 sleep | mark |
| 29 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 went | xcomp |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 was | advmod |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 was | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 sleep | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 perceive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not perceive | past · do-support | the simple fellow | lips's malice and cunning | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer malice=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | get | past | fellow | drunk property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not move | could | fellow | the place | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from place=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | go | past | fellow not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | sleep | to-infinitive | fellow not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | be | past | fellow | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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