Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 142
So he fastened a cord to the horn of the ox and drove it to the town.
Who acts: Two · What happens: fasten, drive · To what, where: cord, ox, town
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 fastened | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fastened | nsubj |
| 3 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cord | det |
| 5 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fastened | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 horn | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 horn | det |
| 8 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fastened | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 ox | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ox | det |
| 11 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 horn | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 drove | cc |
| 13 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fastened | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 drove | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 town | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 town | det |
| 17 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drove | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fasten | past | Two | a cord | to the horn of the ox | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent cord=Patient to horn=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | drive | past | Two not said here | ox | the town | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme to town=Trajectory |
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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