Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 41
Then he took and waved it till the bridge doubled up behind them, and went and spread out again right in front of them.
Who acts: Tsar · What happens: take, wave, double up, go, spread out · To what, where: handkerchief, bridge, front
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), 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 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 waved | cc |
| 5 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 waved | obj |
| 7 | till | till | ADP | _ | 9 bridge | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bridge | det |
| 9 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waved | obl |
| 10 | doubled | double | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 bridge | acl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 doubled | compound:prt |
| 12 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 doubled | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 spread | cc |
| 18 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 went | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 spread | compound:prt |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 spread | advmod |
| 21 | right | right | ADV | _ | 23 front | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 front | case |
| 23 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spread | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 front | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Tsar | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wave | past | Tsar not said here | handkerchief | till the bridge | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | double up | participle | the bridge not said here | behind woods = wood | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | go | past | Tsar not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | spread out | past | Tsar not said here | front of woods | again | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=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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