Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 101
The Devil did so, and began digging at the spot where the gimlet fell out on the marshy ground till he had dug out the children.
Who acts: Devil, gimlet · What happens: do, begin, dig, fall out, dig out · To what, where: marshy ground, children
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 (Devil, gimlet), 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 | 2 Devil | det |
| 2 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 began | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 began | cc |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 8 | digging | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 began | xcomp |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 spot | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 spot | det |
| 11 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 digging | obl |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 fell | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 gimlet | det |
| 14 | gimlet | gimlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fell | nsubj |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 spot | acl:relcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 fell | compound:prt |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 ground | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ground | det |
| 19 | marshy | marshy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ground | amod |
| 20 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fell | obl |
| 21 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 24 dug | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 dug | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 dug | aux |
| 24 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 fell | advcl |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 dug | compound:prt |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 children | det |
| 27 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 dug | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the Devil | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | the Devil not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | dig | gerund | the Devil not said here | at the spot | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at spot=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fall out | past | the gimlet | the marshy ground | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=Location | ||||
| 5 | dig out | past · perfect | Devil | the children | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.instrument PP.theme»: agent=Agent child=Instrument |
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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