Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 108
Again he came to a little thicket, and a she-hare popped out.
Who acts: Vovchok · What happens: come, pop out · To what, where: little thicket, she hare
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vovchok), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 thicket | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 thicket | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thicket | amod |
| 7 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 popped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 popped | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hare | det |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hare | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 she | punct |
| 13 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 popped | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | popped | pop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 popped | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Vovchok | a little thicket | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to thicket=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | pop out | participle · passive | a she hare | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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