Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 15
For in that country they knew nothing about cats, and the rats and mice had completely got the upper hand.
Who acts: mice, rats · What happens: know, get · To what, where: nothing, upper hand
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 (mice, rats), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 country | case |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 country | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 country | det |
| 4 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knew | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 knew | nsubj |
| 6 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 knew | obj |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 cats | case |
| 9 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 nothing | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 got | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 got | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rats | det |
| 13 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 got | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 mice | cc |
| 15 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rats | conj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 got | aux |
| 17 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 18 got | advmod |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 knew | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hand | det |
| 20 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hand | amod |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 got | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | mice = mouse | nothing | for that country; about cats | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | get | past · perfect | the rats and mice | the upper hand | completely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=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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