Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 116
The Tsar again dismounted from his horse, and his dogs rushed up to the hut and began snuffing at the needle.
Who acts: Tsar, dogs · What happens: dismount, rush up, begin, snuff · To what, where: hut, needle
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 (Tsar, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Tsar | det |
| 2 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dismounted | nsubj |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 dismounted | advmod |
| 4 | dismounted | dismount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 horse | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horse | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dismounted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rushed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rushed | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rushed | nsubj |
| 12 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dismounted | parataxis |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 rushed | compound:prt |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 hut | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hut | det |
| 16 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rushed | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 began | cc |
| 18 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rushed | conj |
| 19 | snuffing | snuff | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 began | xcomp |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 needle | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 needle | det |
| 22 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 snuffing | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dismounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismount | past | the Tsar | again | from Tsar's horse | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent from horse=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | rush up | past | Tsar's dogs | the hut | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to hut=Destination | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | Tsar's dogs not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | snuff | gerund | Tsar's dogs not said here | the needle | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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