Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 58
On his way homeward, a great thirst suddenly fell upon him, so he turned aside into a lonely mountain where he knew, as his father had known before him, there was a spring of crystal-clear water.
Who acts: great thirst, TSAR, spring · What happens: fall, turn, know, be · To what, where: way homeward, lonely mountain, father
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 (great thirst, TSAR, spring), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 homeward | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 homeward | nmod:poss |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 homeward | compound |
| 4 | homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 homeward | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 thirst | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thirst | amod |
| 8 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 9 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 10 fell | advmod |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fell | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 turned | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 turned | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 turned | nsubj |
| 16 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fell | conj |
| 17 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 16 turned | advmod |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 mountain | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 mountain | det |
| 20 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 mountain | amod |
| 21 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turned | obl |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 knew | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 knew | nsubj |
| 24 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 mountain | acl:relcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 known | punct |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 known | mark |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 father | nmod:poss |
| 28 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 known | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 known | aux |
| 30 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 turned | conj |
| 31 | before | before | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 known | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 was | punct |
| 34 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 35 was | expl |
| 35 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 known | parataxis |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 spring | det |
| 37 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 was | nsubj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 water | case |
| 39 | crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 clear | amod |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 crystal | punct |
| 41 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 water | amod |
| 42 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 spring | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | a great thirst | TSAR's way homeward | upon TSAR; suddenly property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on homeward=Location | |||
| 2 | turn | past | TSAR | a lonely mountain | aside property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into mountain=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | know | past | TSAR | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | know | past · perfect · passive | TSAR's father | before TSAR | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | be | past | a spring of clear water | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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