Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 149
Then Tremsin picked up the feather and went into the town over against him, and in that town there lived a rich nobleman.
Who acts: Tremsin · What happens: pick up, go, live · To what, where: feather, town, rich nobleman
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: who acts (Tremsin), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 picked | advmod |
| 2 | Tremsin | Tremsin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 picked | nsubj |
| 3 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 picked | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 feather | det |
| 6 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 picked | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | conj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 town | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 town | det |
| 11 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 13 | against | against | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lived | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 lived | cc |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 town | case |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 town | det |
| 19 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lived | obl |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 lived | advmod |
| 21 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 nobleman | det |
| 23 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 nobleman | amod |
| 24 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lived | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | Tremsin | the feather | then | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Topic | |||
| 2 | go | past | Tremsin not said here | the town | over youth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location over he=Destination | |||
| 3 | live | past | Tremsin not said here | a rich nobleman | that town; there | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme nobleman=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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