Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 59
Taking a long cord, he let it down into the pit, and out from thence he pulled a little demon.
Who acts: moujik · What happens: take, let down, pull · To what, where: long cord, cord, pit, little demon
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 (moujik), 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 | Taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 let | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cord | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cord | amod |
| 4 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Taking | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Taking | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 let | nsubj |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 let | obj |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 let | compound:prt |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 pit | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pit | det |
| 12 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 let | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pulled | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pulled | cc |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 thence | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 thence | case |
| 17 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 19 pulled | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 pulled | nsubj |
| 19 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 let | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 demon | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 demon | amod |
| 22 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pulled | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | a long cord | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Theme | |||||
| 2 | let down | past | moujik | cord | the pit | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | pull | past | moujik | a little demon | thence property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent demon=Result |
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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