Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 26
Then the moujik immediately dug up his treasure and began living in the best manner possible."
Who acts: seigneur · What happens: dig up, begin, live, treasure · To what, where: moujik, best manner
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 (seigneur), 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 | 5 dug | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moujik | det |
| 3 | moujik | moujik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dug | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 5 dug | advmod |
| 5 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 dug | compound:prt |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 8 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dug | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 began | cc |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dug | conj |
| 11 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 began | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 manner | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 manner | det |
| 14 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 manner | amod |
| 15 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 living | obl |
| 16 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 living | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dug | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 dug | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig up | participle · passive | the moujik | then | immediately property | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary treasure=Result | |||
| 2 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | live | gerund | the best manner | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in manner=Location | |||||
| 4 | treasure | seigneur | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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