Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 201
The horse swam to a bosquet that rose out of the sea, and there the herd of sea-horses was grazing.
Who acts: horse, bosquet, herd · What happens: swim, rise, graze · To what, where: bosquet, sea
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 (horse, bosquet, herd), 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 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swam | nsubj |
| 3 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 bosquet | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bosquet | det |
| 6 | bosquet | bosquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swam | obl |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 rose | nsubj |
| 8 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bosquet | acl:relcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 sea | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 sea | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sea | det |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rose | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 grazing | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 grazing | cc |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 and | expl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 herd | det |
| 17 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grazing | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 horses | case |
| 19 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 horses | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 sea | punct |
| 21 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 herd | nmod |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 grazing | aux |
| 23 | grazing | graze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 swam | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | past | the horse | a bosquet | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bosquet=Destination | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | a bosquet | the sea | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out sea=Location | ||||
| 3 | graze | past · progressive | the herd of sea horses | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=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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