Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 49
But while they were tearing the serpent to pieces the wicked sister knocked out his tooth and hid it.
Who acts: pieces, wicked sister · What happens: tear, knock out, hide · To what, where: serpent, tooth
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 (pieces, wicked sister), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 hid | cc |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 tearing | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tearing | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tearing | aux |
| 5 | tearing | tear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 hid | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 serpent | det |
| 7 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tearing | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 pieces | case |
| 9 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tearing | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sister | det |
| 11 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sister | amod |
| 12 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pieces | nsubj |
| 13 | knocked | knock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 sister | acl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 knocked | compound:prt |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 tooth | nmod:poss |
| 16 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 knocked | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hid | cc |
| 18 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 hid | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear | past · progressive | pieces = piece | the serpent | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent serpent=Patient piece=Result | ||||
| 2 | knock out | participle | the wicked sister not said here | serpent's tooth | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hide | past | tooth | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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