Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 113
Now there were five sacks of seed-corn outside, so her husband tied up the Golova, and set her in the midst of them.
Who acts: five sacks · What happens: be, tie up, set · To what, where: husband, Cossack, midst
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (five sacks), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 were | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 were | expl |
| 3 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 set | advcl |
| 4 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 sacks | nummod |
| 5 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 were | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 corn | case |
| 7 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 corn | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 seed | punct |
| 9 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sacks | nmod |
| 10 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 9 corn | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tied | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 tied | advmod |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 husband | nmod:poss |
| 14 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 were | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 tied | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Golova | det |
| 18 | Golova | Golova | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 tied | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 set | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 set | cc |
| 21 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 set | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 midst | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 midst | det |
| 25 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 set | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 midst | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | five sacks of seed corn | there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | tie up | participle · passive | Cossack's husband | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient golova=Result | |||||
| 3 | set | past | Cossack | the midst of sacks | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in midst=Destination |
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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