Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 219

He leaped into the first vat, and became quite old; he leaped into the second vat, and became quite young; he leaped into the third vat, and burst to pieces.

Who acts: crab · What happens: leap, become, burst · To what, where: first vat, second vat, third vat

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 (crab), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 leaped	nsubj
2	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 vat	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 vat	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 vat	amod
6	vat	vat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaped	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 became	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 became	cc
9	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 leaped	conj
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 old	advmod
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 became	xcomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 leaped	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 leaped	nsubj
14	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 leaped	parataxis
15	into	into	ADP	_	18 vat	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 vat	det
17	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 vat	amod
18	vat	vat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 leaped	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 became	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 became	cc
21	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 leaped	conj
22	quite	quite	ADV	_	23 young	advmod
23	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 became	xcomp
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 leaped	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 leaped	nsubj
26	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 leaped	parataxis
27	into	into	ADP	_	30 vat	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 vat	det
29	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	30 vat	amod
30	vat	vat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 leaped	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 burst	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 burst	cc
33	burst	burst	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 leaped	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 pieces	case
35	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 burst	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 leaped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	leap	past	crab	the first vat		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into vat=Destination
2	become	past	crab not said here		old property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	leap	past	crab	the second vat		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into vat=Destination
4	become	past	crab not said here		young property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	leap	past	crab	the third vat		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into vat=Destination
6	burst	infinitive	crab not said here		to pieces	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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