Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 7
So they embraced each other, sat on the humble-bee, and off they went.
Who acts: friends · What happens: embrace, sit, go · To what, where: each
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 (friends), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 embraced | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 embraced | nsubj |
| 3 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 3 embraced | obj |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 each | fixed |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sat | punct |
| 7 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 embraced | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 bee | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bee | det |
| 10 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bee | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 humble | punct |
| 12 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 went | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 embraced | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 embraced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embrace | past | friends = friend | each | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | friends = friend not said here | on the humble bee | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bee=Location | ||||
| 3 | go | past | friends = friend | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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