Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 68
Presently he came to a little thicket, and immediately a she-wolf came out.
Who acts: brother, she wolf · What happens: come, come 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 (brother, she wolf), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 thicket | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 thicket | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thicket | amod |
| 7 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 10 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 15 came | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wolf | det |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wolf | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 she | punct |
| 14 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 came | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | brother | a little thicket | presently property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to thicket=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | come out | past | a she wolf | immediately, out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: 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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