Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 81
He dug and dug, and at last he dug out a metal pot.
Who acts: man · What happens: dig, dig out · To what, where: metal pot
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dug | nsubj |
| 2 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 dug | cc |
| 4 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dug | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dug | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dug | cc |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 last | case |
| 8 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dug | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dug | nsubj |
| 10 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dug | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 dug | compound:prt |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pot | det |
| 13 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pot | compound |
| 14 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dug | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dug | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | past | man | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | dig | past | man not said here | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | dig out | past | man | a metal pot | at last | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.instrument PP.theme»: agent=Agent pot=Instrument at last=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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