Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 2, sentence 87
So he slept through the night, and at dawn he arose and mounted his good steed and hied him thence.
Who acts: brother · What happens: sleep, arise, mount, hie · To what, where: good steed, brother
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), 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 slept | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 slept | nsubj |
| 3 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slept | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 arose | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 arose | cc |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 dawn | case |
| 10 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 arose | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 arose | nsubj |
| 12 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 slept | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 mounted | cc |
| 14 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 arose | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 steed | nmod:poss |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 steed | amod |
| 17 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mounted | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hied | cc |
| 19 | hied | hie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 arose | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 hied | obj |
| 21 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 19 hied | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 slept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | brother | night | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | arise | past | brother | dawn | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mount | past | brother not said here | brother's good steed | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Patient | ||||
| 4 | hie | past | brother not said here | brother | thence property | tree rules |
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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