Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 124
They came to a little thicket, and a vixen popped out.
Who acts: beasts, vixen · What happens: come, pop out · To what, where: little thicket
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 (beasts, vixen), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 thicket | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 thicket | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thicket | amod |
| 6 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 popped | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 popped | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 vixen | det |
| 10 | vixen | vixen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 popped | nsubj |
| 11 | popped | pop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 came | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 popped | compound:prt |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | beasts = beast | a little thicket | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to thicket=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | pop out | participle | a vixen | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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