Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 2
He came up to the mill, tied his horse to it, and entered into it.
Who acts: He · What happens: come up, tie, enter · To what, where: mill, horse
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (He), 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 | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 mill | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mill | det |
| 6 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tied | punct |
| 8 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 horse | nmod:poss |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tied | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tied | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 entered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 entered | cc |
| 15 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 entered | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | He | the mill | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mill=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | tie | past | He not said here | his horse | mill | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient to it=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | enter | past | He not said here | mill | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into it=Initial_Location |
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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