Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 5
The nobleman was wet to the skin, and his teeth chattered.
Who acts: nobleman, teeth · What happens: be, chatter
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, teeth), 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 nobleman | det |
| 2 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wet | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wet | cop |
| 4 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 skin | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 skin | det |
| 7 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wet | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 chattered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 chattered | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 11 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 chattered | nsubj |
| 12 | chattered | chatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wet | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the nobleman | to the skin; wet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | chatter | past | nobleman's teeth | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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