Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 63
When night came, he took up his laths and boards and a basket of pears, and went to the church.
Who acts: night, Michael · What happens: come, take up, go · To what, where: laths, church
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 (night, Michael), 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 | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 took | compound:prt |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 laths | nmod:poss |
| 9 | laths | lath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 took | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 boards | cc |
| 11 | boards | board | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 laths | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 basket | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 basket | det |
| 14 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laths | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 pears | case |
| 16 | pears | pear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 basket | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 church | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 church | det |
| 22 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take up | past | Michael | Michael's laths and boards and a basket of pears | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lath=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Michael not said here | the church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location |
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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