Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 116
Then he took to slashing at the sacks one after another with his whip, and the woman to howling at the pitch of her voice:
Who acts: Ho, woman · What happens: take, slash, howl · To what, where: sacks
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 (Ho, woman), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 5 slashing | mark |
| 5 | slashing | slash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 took | advcl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 sacks | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sacks | det |
| 8 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 slashing | obj |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 sacks | flat |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 another | case |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 one | nmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 whip | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 whip | nmod:poss |
| 14 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slashing | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 howling | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 howling | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 woman | det |
| 18 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 howling | nsubj |
| 19 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 20 howling | mark |
| 20 | howling | howl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 took | advcl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 pitch | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 pitch | det |
| 23 | pitch | pitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 howling | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 voice | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 voice | nmod:poss |
| 26 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pitch | nmod |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Ho | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | slash | gerund | Ho not said here | the sacks | with Ho's whip | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Patient with whip=Instrument | |||
| 3 | howl | gerund | the woman | at the pitch of woman's voice | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at pitch=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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