Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 76
He has added another watch-dog to his train!
Who acts: serpent · What happens: add · To what, where: watch dog
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 (serpent), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 added | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 added | aux |
| 3 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 dog | det |
| 5 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dog | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 watch | punct |
| 7 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 added | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 train | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 train | nmod:poss |
| 10 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 added | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | present · perfect | serpent | another watch dog | to serpent's train | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent dog=Patient to train=Co-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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