Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 38
At that same instant his dogs and his beasts, growling loudly, came running up, and stood in a circle around him.
What happens: growl, come, run up, stand · To what, where: circle
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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 6 dogs | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 dogs | nsubj |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dogs | amod |
| 4 | instant | instant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dogs | amod |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 came | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 beasts | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 beasts | nmod:poss |
| 9 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dogs | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 growling | punct |
| 11 | growling | growl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 dogs | conj |
| 12 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 11 growling | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dogs | punct |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 came | advcl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 running | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stood | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stood | cc |
| 19 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 came | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 circle | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 circle | det |
| 22 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stood | obl |
| 23 | around | around | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stood | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | growl | gerund | loudly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | past | at Tsar's same instant dogs and Tsar's beasts | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at dog=Location | |||||
| 3 | run up | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | stand | past | a circle | around Tsar | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in circle=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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