Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 32
Then the nobleman felt that he must drink of that water or die; but the huntsman rushed up and splashed in the spring with his sword, and immediately the water turned to blood.
Who acts: nobleman, huntsman, water · What happens: feel, drink, die, rush up, splash, turn · To what, where: blood
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, huntsman, water), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 felt | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 nobleman | det |
| 3 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 drink | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 drink | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 drink | aux |
| 8 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 felt | ccomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 water | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drink | obl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 die | cc |
| 13 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 drink | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 rushed | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 rushed | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 huntsman | det |
| 17 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rushed | nsubj |
| 18 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | parataxis |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 rushed | compound:prt |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 splashed | cc |
| 21 | splashed | splash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 rushed | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 spring | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 spring | det |
| 24 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 splashed | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 sword | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 sword | nmod:poss |
| 27 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 spring | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 turned | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 turned | cc |
| 30 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 33 turned | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 water | det |
| 32 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 turned | nsubj |
| 33 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 blood | case |
| 35 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 turned | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the nobleman | then | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drink | must | nobleman | of that water | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of water=Source | ||||
| 3 | die | infinitive | nobleman not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | rush up | past | the huntsman | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | splash | participle | the huntsman not said here | spring | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | turn | past | the water | blood | immediately property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to blood=Trajectory |
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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