Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 115
Then he changed himself into a needle, and she stuck him still higher in the wall, so that the dogs could not get at him.
Who acts: Hail, fox, dogs · What happens: change, stick, not get · To what, where: Hail, needle, wall
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 (Hail, fox, dogs), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 changed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 changed | nsubj |
| 3 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 changed | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 needle | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 needle | det |
| 7 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stuck | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stuck | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stuck | nsubj |
| 11 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 changed | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stuck | obj |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 higher | advmod |
| 14 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 stuck | xcomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 wall | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wall | det |
| 17 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stuck | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 get | punct |
| 19 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 25 get | mark |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 so | fixed |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dogs | det |
| 22 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 get | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 get | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 get | advmod |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 stuck | parataxis |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 get | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | Hail | Hail | then | into a needle result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into needle=Result | ||
| 2 | stick | past | fox | Hail | the wall | high property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in wall=Destination | ||
| 3 | not get | could | the dogs | at Hail | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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