Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 23
He laid hold of it, carried it home, opened it, and looked inside.
Who acts: Tartar · What happens: lay, hold, carry, open, look · To what, where: barrel
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 (Tartar), 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 laid | nsubj |
| 2 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 laid | xcomp |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hold | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 carried | punct |
| 7 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 laid | parataxis |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 carried | obj |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 carried | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 opened | punct |
| 11 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 carried | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 opened | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 looked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 looked | cc |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 laid | conj |
| 16 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 15 looked | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | Tartar | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hold | infinitive | Tartar not said here | of barrel | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | barrel | home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | open | past | barrel | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||||
| 5 | look | past | Tartar not said here | inside property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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