Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 203
They drove the horse with the hides into the sea, and pursued him.
Who acts: herds · What happens: drive, pursue · To what, where: horse, 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 (herds), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drove | nsubj |
| 2 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 horse | det |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drove | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 hides | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hides | det |
| 7 | hides | hide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 drove | obl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 sea | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drove | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pursued | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pursued | cc |
| 13 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drove | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 pursued | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | herds = herd | the horse | the sea | with the hides | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent horse=Theme into sea=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | pursue | past | herds = herd not said here | SEA | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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