Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 208
Then Tremsin threw a halter over him, mounted, and drove the whole herd to the thrice-lovely Nastasia.
Who acts: Tremsin · What happens: throw, mount, drive · To what, where: halter, whole herd, lovely Nastasia
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 threw | advmod |
| 2 | Tremsin | Tremsin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 halter | det |
| 5 | halter | halter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obj |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threw | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mounted | punct |
| 9 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drove | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 drove | cc |
| 12 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 herd | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 herd | amod |
| 15 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drove | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Nastasia | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Nastasia | det |
| 18 | thrice | thrice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 lovely | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 thrice | punct |
| 20 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Nastasia | amod |
| 21 | Nastasia | Nastasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 drove | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | Tremsin | a halter | then | over SEA | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent halter=Theme over he=Destination | ||
| 2 | mount | past | Tremsin not said here | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | drive | past | Tremsin not said here | the whole herd | the lovely Nastasia | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herd=Theme to nastasia=Trajectory |
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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