Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 82
So the man went along leading the little ram by a string, and they came to a tavern, that very same tavern where he had been before, and again a strong desire came upon the man to go in.
Who acts: man, ways, strong desire · What happens: go along, lead, come, be, go in · To what, where: little ram, tavern
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, ways, strong desire), 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 | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | along | along | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ram | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ram | amod |
| 9 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leading | obj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 string | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 string | det |
| 12 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leading | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 tavern | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tavern | det |
| 19 | tavern | tavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 tavern | punct |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 tavern | det |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 same | advmod |
| 23 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tavern | amod |
| 24 | tavern | tavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tavern | appos |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 before | advmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 before | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 before | aux |
| 28 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 before | cop |
| 29 | before | before | ADV | _ | 24 tavern | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 came | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 came | cc |
| 32 | again | again | ADV | _ | 35 desire | advmod |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 desire | det |
| 34 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 desire | amod |
| 35 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 came | nsubj |
| 36 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 37 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 39 man | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 man | det |
| 39 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 came | obl |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 go | mark |
| 41 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 came | advcl |
| 42 | in | in | ADV | _ | 41 go | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go along | past | the man | along property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lead | gerund | the man not said here | the little ram | by a string | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ram=Theme by string=Destination | |||
| 3 | come | past | ways = way | a tavern | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tavern=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past · perfect | man | before property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come | past | a strong desire | upon the man | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon man=Location | ||||
| 6 | go in | to-infinitive | a strong desire not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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