Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 82
Looking into it he saw that it was stuffed full of ducats that shone like fire.
Who acts: man, ducats · What happens: look, see, stuff, shine · To what, where: last · Speech: someone speaks here
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, ducats), 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 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 saw | advcl |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 3 it | case |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Looking | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 stuffed | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stuffed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stuffed | aux:pass |
| 9 | stuffed | stuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stuffed | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 ducats | case |
| 12 | ducats | ducat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 full | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 shone | nsubj |
| 14 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ducats | acl:relcl |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 fire | case |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shone | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | man not said here | into last | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | stuff | past · passive | last | full property | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shine | past | ducats | like fire | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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