Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 12
The barrel straightway sank to the bottom; everyone supposed the money was lost.
Who acts: barrel straightway, everyone · What happens: sink, suppose, lose · To what, where: money · 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 (barrel straightway, everyone), 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 | 3 straightway | det |
| 2 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 straightway | compound |
| 3 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sank | nsubj |
| 4 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 bottom | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bottom | det |
| 7 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sank | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 supposed | punct |
| 9 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 supposed | nsubj |
| 10 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sank | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 money | det |
| 12 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lost | aux:pass |
| 14 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 supposed | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | past | the barrel straightway | to the bottom | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | suppose | past | everyone | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lose | past · passive | the money | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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