Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 94
He raged up and down outside the hut--but there was nothing to be seen.
Who acts: serpent, nothing · What happens: rage up, be, see · To what, where: hut
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 (serpent, nothing), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 raged | nsubj |
| 2 | raged | rage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 raged | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 down | cc |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 raged | conj |
| 6 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 8 hut | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hut | det |
| 8 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 raged | obl |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 was | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 was | cc |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 raged | parataxis |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 was | nsubj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 seen | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 seen | aux:pass |
| 16 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 nothing | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 raged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rage up | past | serpent | the hut | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside hut=Location | ||||
| 2 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive · passive | nothing not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
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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