Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 11

The merchant took a barrel, counted out fifty thousand roubles, wrote the Tartar a note, placed it, together with the money, in the barrel, and then flung the barrel into the water, saying to himself: "As I gave the cross as my surety to the Tartar, the money will be certain to reach him."

Who acts: merchant, barrel, storm, money · What happens: take, count out, write, place, fling, say · To what, where: barrel, thousand roubles, note, Tartar, water, merchant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, barrel, storm, money), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 barrel	det
5	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 counted	punct
7	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 barrel	acl
8	out	out	ADV	_	10 thousand	advmod
9	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 thousand	compound
10	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 roubles	nummod
11	roubles	rouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 counted	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wrote	punct
13	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Tartar	det
15	Tartar	Tartar	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 wrote	obj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 note	det
17	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wrote	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 placed	punct
19	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 placed	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 together	punct
22	together	together	ADV	_	19 placed	advmod
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 money	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 money	det
25	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 placed	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 barrel	punct
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 barrel	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 barrel	det
29	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 placed	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 flung	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 flung	cc
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 flung	advmod
33	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 barrel	det
35	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 flung	obj
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 water	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 water	det
38	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 flung	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 saying	punct
40	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 flung	advcl
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 himself	case
42	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	40 saying	obl
43	:	:	PUNCT	_	47 gave	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	47 gave	punct
45	As	as	SCONJ	_	47 gave	mark
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 gave	nsubj
47	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	parataxis
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 cross	det
49	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 gave	obj
50	as	as	ADP	_	52 surety	case
51	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 surety	nmod:poss
52	surety	surety	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 gave	obl
53	to	to	ADP	_	55 Tartar	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 Tartar	det
55	Tartar	Tartar	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 gave	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 certain	punct
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 money	det
58	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 certain	nsubj
59	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 certain	aux
60	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	61 certain	cop
61	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 gave	conj
62	to	to	PART	_	63 reach	mark
63	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	61 certain	csubj
64	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 reach	obj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct
66	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the merchant	a barrel					vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent barrel=Theme clause=Attribute
2	count out	participle	a barrel not said here	thousand roubles					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rouble=Theme
3	write	past	the merchant not said here	a note	the Tartar				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent tartar=Recipient note=Topic
4	place	past	the merchant not said here	note		the barrel		with the money; together property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in barrel=Destination
5	fling	past	the merchant not said here	the barrel		the water	then		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent barrel=Theme into water=Destination
6	say speech: assert	gerund	the merchant not said here		merchant				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
7	give in a quote	past	storm	the cross	the Tartar			as my surety	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cross=Theme to tartar=Recipient
8	is in a quote	future	the money					certain property	tree rules
9	reach in a quote	to-infinitive		merchant					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent he=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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