Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 88
The Muscovite stood there and opened his eyes wide, but the hare had now got up to the spring, and took a little flask of the water and nipped off a little apple, and was off in a trice.
Who acts: Muscovite, hare · What happens: stand, open, get up, take, nip off, be off · To what, where: eyes, little flask, little apple, trice
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 (Muscovite, hare), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Muscovite | det |
| 2 | Muscovite | Muscovite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stood | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 opened | cc |
| 6 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 opened | obj |
| 9 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 opened | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 got | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 got | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hare | det |
| 13 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 got | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 got | aux |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 got | advmod |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 got | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 spring | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 spring | det |
| 20 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 got | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 took | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 took | cc |
| 23 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 flask | det |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 flask | amod |
| 26 | flask | flask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 water | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 water | det |
| 29 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 flask | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 nipped | cc |
| 31 | nipped | nip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 took | conj |
| 32 | off | off | ADP | _ | 31 nipped | compound:prt |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 apple | det |
| 34 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 apple | amod |
| 35 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 nipped | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 was | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 was | cc |
| 38 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 39 | off | off | ADP | _ | 38 was | compound:prt |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 trice | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 trice | det |
| 42 | trice | trice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 was | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the Muscovite | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | open | past | the Muscovite not said here | Muscovite's eyes | wide property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | |||
| 3 | get up | past · perfect | the hare | now; spring | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | take | past | a little flask of the water | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flask=Theme | |||||
| 5 | nip off | participle | a little apple | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location apple=Theme | |||||
| 6 | be off | past | a trice | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in trice=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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