Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 54
So he shouldered the sack that was hanging on the peg, and went off home.
Who acts: man, sack · What happens: shoulder, hang, go off · To what, where: sack, peg
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 (man, sack), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 shouldered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shouldered | nsubj |
| 3 | shouldered | shoulder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sack | det |
| 5 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shouldered | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 hanging | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hanging | aux |
| 8 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 sack | acl:relcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 peg | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 peg | det |
| 11 | peg | peg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hanging | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shouldered | conj |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 went | compound:prt |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shouldered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoulder | past | man | the sack | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sack=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hang | past · progressive | the sack | the peg | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on peg=Location | ||||
| 3 | go off | past | man not said here | home property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: 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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