Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 112

The horse perceived that he could do no more, so he gave one last wriggle and died; but they, poor things, were left alive. "

Who acts: horse, truth · What happens: perceive, do, give, die, thing, leave · To what, where: more, one last wriggle, poor things

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 (horse, truth), 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 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 perceived	nsubj
3	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 do	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 perceived	advcl
8	no	no	ADV	_	9 more	advmod
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 do	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gave	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 gave	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	nsubj
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 perceived	parataxis
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 wriggle	nummod
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wriggle	amod
16	wriggle	wriggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 died	cc
18	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gave	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 left	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 things	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 things	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 things	punct
23	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 things	amod
24	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 left	nsubj:pass
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 things	punct
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 left	aux:pass
27	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 perceived	parataxis
28	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 left	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 left	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	perceive	past	the horse			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	do	could	horse	more		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality
3	give	past	horse	one last wriggle		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wriggle=Theme
4	die	past	horse not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	thing		truth			tree rules
6	leave	past · passive		poor things	alive property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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