Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 85
He did not go on digging the grave any longer, but took the pot of gold and carried it home.
Who acts: man · What happens: not go, dig, take, carry · To what, where: grave, 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 | 4 go | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 go | advmod |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 6 digging | mark |
| 6 | digging | dig | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 go | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 grave | det |
| 8 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 digging | obj |
| 9 | any | any | ADV | _ | 10 longer | advmod |
| 10 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 digging | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pot | det |
| 15 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 gold | case |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pot | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 carried | cc |
| 19 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 carried | obj |
| 21 | home | home | ADV | _ | 19 carried | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | past · do-support | man | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | dig | gerund | man not said here | the grave | long property | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grave=Theme | |||
| 3 | take | past | the pot of gold | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme | |||||
| 4 | carry | past | pot | home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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