Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 73

Then the little Tsar went back, and now there were with him two dogs and a little wolf-whelp that trotted behind them.

Who acts: little Tsar, little wolf whelp · What happens: go back, be, trot · To what, where: two dogs

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 (little Tsar, little wolf whelp), 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	5 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Tsar	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Tsar	amod
4	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dogs	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 dogs	cc
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 were	advmod
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 were	expl
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 dogs	cop
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 were	obl
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 dogs	nummod
15	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 went	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 whelp	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 whelp	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 whelp	amod
19	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 whelp	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 wolf	punct
21	whelp	whelp	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dogs	conj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 trotted	nsubj
23	trotted	trot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 whelp	acl:relcl
24	behind	behind	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 trotted	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	the little Tsar		then		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	is a	past		two dogs and a little wolf whelp			tree rules
3	trot	past	a little wolf whelp			behind pieces = piece	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind they=Trajectory

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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