Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 1
A nobleman went hunting one autumn, and with him went a goodly train of huntsmen.
Who acts: nobleman · What happens: go, hunt · To what, where: goodly train
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nobleman), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 nobleman | det |
| 2 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 went | xcomp |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 autumn | nummod |
| 6 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hunting | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | obl |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 train | det |
| 13 | goodly | goodly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 train | amod |
| 14 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 huntsmen | case |
| 16 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 train | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | a nobleman | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | hunt | gerund | a nobleman not said here | autumn | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | past | a nobleman not said here | a goodly train of huntsmen | with nobleman | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location train=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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