Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 4, sentence 20
Now that the little hare had died there was none to kiss her back into life again. "
Who acts: little hare, none · What happens: die, be, kiss back · To what, where: hare, life
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little hare, none), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 died | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 died | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hare | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hare | amod |
| 5 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 died | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 died | aux |
| 7 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 died | advcl |
| 10 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 9 was | nsubj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 kiss | mark |
| 12 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 none | acl |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 kiss | obj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 kiss | advmod |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 life | case |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kiss | obl |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 kiss | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 died | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past · perfect | the little hare | now | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | be | past | none | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kiss back | to-infinitive | none not said here | hare | life | again | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-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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