Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 138
So he took the pot of gold, carried it outside, flung it on the ground, and bolted indoors again as quickly as possible.
Who acts: man · What happens: take, carry, fling, bolt · To what, where: pot, ground
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 (man), 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 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pot | det |
| 5 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 gold | case |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pot | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 carried | punct |
| 9 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 carried | obj |
| 11 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 9 carried | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 flung | punct |
| 13 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 flung | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 ground | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ground | det |
| 17 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flung | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bolted | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 bolted | cc |
| 20 | bolted | bolt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | conj |
| 21 | indoors | indoors | ADV | _ | 20 bolted | advmod |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 bolted | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 quickly | advmod |
| 24 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 20 bolted | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 possible | mark |
| 26 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 quickly | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | man | the pot of gold | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | man not said here | pot | outside property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | fling | past | man not said here | pot | the ground | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on ground=Destination | |||
| 4 | bolt | participle | man not said here | again | indoors, quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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