Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 140
Now in this forest three bandits chanced to be wandering at the same time.
What happens: chance, wonder · To what, where: three bandits
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 6 bandits | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 forest | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 forest | det |
| 4 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Now | obl |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 bandits | nummod |
| 6 | bandits | bandit | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | chanced | chance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 bandits | acl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 wandering | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wandering | aux |
| 10 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 chanced | advcl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wandering | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bandits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chance | participle | three bandits not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | to-infinitive · progressive | time | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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