Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 23
His hut grew up as quick as thought, and it contained everything that they wanted.
Who acts: hut, sheaves · What happens: grow up, contain, want · To what, where: everything
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Serpent-wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hut, sheaves), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hut | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 grew | compound:prt |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 quick | advmod |
| 6 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 thought | case |
| 8 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 quick | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 contained | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 contained | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 contained | nsubj |
| 12 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 13 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 12 contained | obj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 wanted | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wanted | nsubj |
| 16 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 contained | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past | Serpent's hut | quick property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | contain | past | hut | everything | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot everything=Theme | ||||
| 3 | want | past | sheaves = sheaf | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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