Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 38
There was ever such a blackie came from under the stove, and he pulled the skin off, and got into it himself."
Who acts: blackie · What happens: be, come, pull off, get · To what, where: stove, skin, blackie
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 (blackie), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | advcl |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 blackie | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 blackie | det |
| 6 | blackie | blackie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 stove | case |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 stove | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stove | det |
| 11 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pulled | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pulled | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pulled | nsubj |
| 15 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 skin | det |
| 17 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pulled | obj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 pulled | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 got | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 got | cc |
| 21 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | parataxis |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 got | obl |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 got | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 got | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | such blackie not said here | there | ever | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | such blackie | the stove | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from stove=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | pull off | past | blackie | the skin | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | get | past | blackie | skin | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into it=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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