Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 86
So into the tavern he went, dragging the little ram after him, for he was afraid to let it go.
Who acts: man, ram · What happens: go, drag, be, let · To what, where: tavern, little ram, ram
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, ram), 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 | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 tavern | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tavern | det |
| 4 | tavern | tavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dragging | punct |
| 8 | dragging | drag | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 went | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ram | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ram | amod |
| 11 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dragging | obj |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dragging | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 afraid | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 afraid | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 afraid | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 afraid | cop |
| 18 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 went | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 let | mark |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 afraid | xcomp |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 let | obj |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 let | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | man | the tavern | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into tavern=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | drag | gerund | man not said here | the little ram | after man | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ram=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | man | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | let | to-infinitive | man not said here | ram | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | ram 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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