Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 2
All day long they hunted and hunted, and at the end of the day they had caught nothing.
Who acts: huntsmen · What happens: hunt, catch · To what, where: huntsmen, end
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 (huntsmen), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hunted | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 hunted | advmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hunted | nsubj |
| 5 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hunted | cc |
| 7 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hunted | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 caught | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 caught | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 end | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 end | det |
| 12 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 caught | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 end | nmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 caught | aux |
| 18 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 hunted | parataxis |
| 19 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 caught | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hunted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | past | huntsmen = huntsman | day | long property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | hunt | past | huntsmen = huntsman not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | catch | past · perfect · passive | huntsmen = huntsman | at the end of the day | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary nothing=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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