Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 6

He whistled, and he heard his dogs whining where they could not get out.

Who acts: man, dogs · What happens: whistle, hear, whine, not get out · To what, where: 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, dogs), 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 whistled	nsubj
2	whistled	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 heard	cc
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 whistled	conj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dogs	nmod:poss
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heard	obj
9	whining	whine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 heard	xcomp
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 get	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 get	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 get	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 get	advmod
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 whining	advcl
15	out	out	ADV	_	14 get	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 whistled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	whistle	past	man			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past	man	man's dogs		tree rules
3	whine	gerund	man's dogs not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not get out	could	dogs = dog		out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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