Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 132
Again he flung it into the well, and again it sank to the bottom.
Who acts: value, master · What happens: fling, sink · To what, where: master, well
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 (value, master), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 3 flung | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flung | nsubj |
| 3 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flung | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 well | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 well | det |
| 7 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flung | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sank | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sank | cc |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 sank | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sank | nsubj |
| 12 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flung | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 bottom | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bottom | det |
| 15 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sank | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling | past | value | master | the well | again | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme into well=Destination | ||
| 2 | sink | past | master | again | to the bottom | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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