Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 4, sentence 22
But the little fox was artful, and taking the little hare on his shoulder, he trotted off to the forest.
Who acts: little fox, fox · What happens: be, take, trot off · To what, where: little hare, shoulder, forest
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 fox, fox), 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 | _ | 6 artful | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fox | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fox | amod |
| 4 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 artful | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 artful | cop |
| 6 | artful | artful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 taking | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 taking | cc |
| 9 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 artful | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hare | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hare | amod |
| 12 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taking | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 shoulder | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 15 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taking | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 trotted | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 trotted | nsubj |
| 18 | trotted | trot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 artful | parataxis |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 trotted | compound:prt |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 forest | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 forest | det |
| 22 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trotted | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 artful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the little fox | artful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | the little fox not said here | the little hare | fox's shoulder | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hare=Theme on shoulder=Destination | |||
| 3 | trot off | past | fox | the forest | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to forest=Destination |
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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