Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 155
He tied the ox to the Birch, took leave of the tree, and went home.
Who acts: family · What happens: tie, take, go · To what, where: ox, leave
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 (family), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tied | nsubj |
| 2 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ox | det |
| 4 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tied | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Birch | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Birch | det |
| 7 | Birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tied | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tied | conj |
| 10 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leave | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | past | family | the ox | to the Birch | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent ox=Patient to birch=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | take | past | family not said here | leave of the tree | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | family not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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