Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 8
They hastened up to it, and lo! there was a hut.
Who acts: depths, hut · What happens: hasten up, be · To what, where: forest
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 (depths, hut), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hastened | nsubj |
| 2 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 hastened | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hastened | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 was | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 was | cc |
| 8 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 11 was | discourse |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 lo | punct |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hastened | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hut | det |
| 13 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten up | past | depths = depth | forest | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to it=Destination | ||||
| 2 | be | past | a hut | 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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