Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 127
So she took a strong needle, and some tough thread, and sewed him up in the goatskin.
Who acts: person · What happens: take, sew up · To what, where: strong needle, pope, goatskin
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 needle | det |
| 5 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 needle | amod |
| 6 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thread | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 thread | cc |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 thread | det |
| 10 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 thread | amod |
| 11 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sewed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sewed | cc |
| 14 | sewed | sew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sewed | obj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 sewed | compound:prt |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 goatskin | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 goatskin | det |
| 19 | goatskin | goatskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sewed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | person | a strong needle | some tough thread obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Theme | |||
| 2 | sew up | past | person not said here | pope | the goatskin | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in goatskin=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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