Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 4

He took meal from beneath the first furnace and went through the second door, but the dogs were shut in by the doors.

Who acts: man, doors · What happens: take, go, shut in · To what, where: meal, first furnace, second door, dogs

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 (man, doors), 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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	8 furnace	case
5	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	8 furnace	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 furnace	det
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 furnace	amod
8	furnace	furnace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
11	through	through	ADP	_	14 door	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 door	det
13	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 door	amod
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 shut	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 shut	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dogs	det
18	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 shut	nsubj:pass
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 shut	aux:pass
20	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 took	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	20 shut	compound:prt
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 doors	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 doors	det
24	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 shut	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	take	past	man	meal	the first furnace	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent meal=Theme from furnace=Initial_Location
2	go	past	man not said here		the second door	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through door=Initial_Location
3	shut in	past · passive	the doors	the dogs		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=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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