Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 85
Besides, he scattered his nuts, and she went after them and tried to pick them all up till cockcrow.
Who acts: Michael, uproar · What happens: scatter, go, try, pick up · To what, where: nuts
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 (Michael, uproar), 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 | Besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 4 scattered | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Besides | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 scattered | nsubj |
| 4 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 nuts | nmod:poss |
| 6 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 scattered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 scattered | parataxis |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tried | cc |
| 14 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 pick | mark |
| 16 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 tried | xcomp |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 pick | obj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 pick | compound:prt |
| 20 | till | till | ADP | _ | 21 cockcrow | case |
| 21 | cockcrow | cockcrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pick | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 scattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scatter | past | Michael | Michael's nuts | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent nut=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | uproar | after nuts = nut | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | try | past | uproar not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | pick up not said to happen | to-infinitive | uproar not said here | nuts = nut | till cockcrow | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
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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