Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 38
He drew it out and flung it, and before them stood a bridge.
Who acts: Tsar, woods · What happens: draw out, fling, stand · To what, where: handkerchief, bridge
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, woods), 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 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drew | obj |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 drew | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 flung | cc |
| 6 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 flung | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stood | cc |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 stood | mark |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stood | nsubj |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bridge | det |
| 14 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw out | past | Tsar | handkerchief | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fling | past | Tsar not said here | handkerchief | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | woods = wood | a bridge | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bridge=Stimulus |
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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