Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 202
When the strong charger of Nastasia saw him and the hides he carried on his back, it set off after him at full tilt, and the whole herd followed the strong charger of Nastasia.
Who acts: strong charger, SEA, charger, whole herd · What happens: see, carry, set off, follow · To what, where: SEA, back, full tilt, strong charger
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 (strong charger, SEA, charger, whole 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 charger | det |
| 3 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 charger | amod |
| 4 | charger | charger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Nastasia | case |
| 6 | Nastasia | Nastasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 charger | nmod |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 carried | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hides | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hides | det |
| 11 | hides | hide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 saw | conj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 carried | nsubj |
| 13 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 back | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 back | nmod:poss |
| 16 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 set | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 set | nsubj |
| 19 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 carried | conj |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 set | compound:prt |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 set | obl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 tilt | case |
| 24 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 tilt | amod |
| 25 | tilt | tilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 set | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 followed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 followed | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 herd | det |
| 29 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 herd | amod |
| 30 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 followed | nsubj |
| 31 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 carried | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 charger | det |
| 33 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 charger | amod |
| 34 | charger | charger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 followed | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Nastasia | case |
| 36 | Nastasia | Nastasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 charger | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the strong charger of Nastasia | SEA | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | SEA | SEA's back | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | set off | past | charger | full tilt | after SEA | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | follow | past | the whole herd | the strong charger of Nastasia | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charger=Theme |
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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