Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 118
He shouted to them, and they sat down quietly on their haunches.
Who acts: Tsar, pieces · What happens: shout, sit down · To what, where: pieces, haunches
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, pieces), 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 shouted | nsubj |
| 2 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shouted | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sat | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sat | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sat | nsubj |
| 8 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shouted | conj |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 sat | compound:prt |
| 10 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 8 sat | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 haunches | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 haunches | nmod:poss |
| 13 | haunches | haunch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sat | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past | Tsar | pieces = piece | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past | pieces = piece | pieces's haunches | quietly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on haunch=Location |
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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