Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 151
Well, they dug up the flower, took it home, put it in a glazed flower-pot, and set it in a window.
Who acts: roots · What happens: dig up, take, put, glaze, set · To what, where: flower, glazed flower pot, window
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roots), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 dug | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dug | nsubj |
| 4 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 dug | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 flower | det |
| 7 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dug | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dug | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | obj |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 took | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 put | punct |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 took | advcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 put | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 pot | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 pot | det |
| 17 | glazed | glaze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 pot | amod |
| 18 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pot | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 flower | punct |
| 20 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 set | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 set | cc |
| 23 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 put | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 set | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 window | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 window | det |
| 27 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 set | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dug | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig up | past | roots = root | the flower | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent flower=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | roots = root not said here | flower | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | put | infinitive | roots = root not said here | flower | a glazed flower pot | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pot=Destination | |||
| 4 | glaze | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | set | infinitive | roots = root not said here | flower | a window | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in window=Destination |
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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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