Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 9
They entered, and on the table lay bread and a jug of kvas; and the hut was warm, and the bed therein was white--everything just as the nobleman had desired it.
Who acts: depths, hut, bed · What happens: enter, lie, be, desire · To what, where: bread, table, everything
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, bed), 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 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lay | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lay | cc |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 table | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 table | det |
| 7 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lay | obl |
| 8 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 entered | advcl |
| 9 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lay | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 jug | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 jug | det |
| 12 | jug | jug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bread | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 kvas | case |
| 14 | kvas | kvas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 jug | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 warm | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 warm | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hut | det |
| 18 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 warm | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 warm | cop |
| 20 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 entered | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 white | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 white | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bed | det |
| 24 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 white | nsubj |
| 25 | therein | therein | ADV | _ | 27 white | advmod |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 white | cop |
| 27 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 warm | conj |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 35 desired | punct |
| 29 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 35 desired | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | just | just | ADV | _ | 35 desired | advmod |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 desired | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 nobleman | det |
| 33 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 desired | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 desired | aux |
| 35 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 warm | advcl |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 desired | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | depths = depth | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lie | past | depths = depth not said here | bread and a jug of kvas | the table | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bread=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | the hut | warm property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the bed | therein, white property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | desire | past · perfect · passive | everything | tree rules |
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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