Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 28
Now the season was getting on, and for all the care and labour of his wife, the corn was still standing in the field. "
Who acts: season, corn · What happens: get on, stand · To what, where: field
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 (season, corn), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 getting | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 season | det |
| 3 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 getting | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 getting | aux |
| 5 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 getting | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 standing | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 standing | cc |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 care | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 care | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 care | det |
| 12 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 standing | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 labour | cc |
| 14 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 care | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 wife | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 labour | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 care | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 corn | det |
| 20 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 standing | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 standing | aux |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 standing | advmod |
| 23 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 getting | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 field | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 field | det |
| 26 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 standing | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 getting | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 getting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get on | past · progressive | the season | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | stand | past · progressive | the corn | the field | still | for all care and labour of Serpent's wife | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in field=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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