Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 60
Then she took the handkerchief, went down to the sea, and waved it--and behold there was a bridge.
Who acts: sister, bridge · What happens: take, go down, wave, be · To what, where: handkerchief
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 (sister, bridge), 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 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 handkerchief | det |
| 5 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 waved | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 waved | cc |
| 14 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 waved | obj |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 was | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 was | cc |
| 18 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 20 was | discourse |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 was | expl |
| 20 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 bridge | det |
| 22 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 was | nsubj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | sister | the handkerchief | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Theme | |||
| 2 | go down | past | sister not said here | to the sea; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | wave | past | sister not said here | handkerchief | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | be | past | a bridge | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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