Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 78
So he took an axe and a shovel, and went to the graveyard.
Who acts: man · What happens: take, go · To what, where: axe, graveyard
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 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 axe | det |
| 5 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shovel | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 shovel | det |
| 8 | shovel | shovel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 axe | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 graveyard | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 graveyard | det |
| 14 | graveyard | graveyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | man | a axe and a shovel | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | man not said here | the graveyard | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to graveyard=Initial_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: «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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