Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 165
Early next morning the Simpleton got up, dressed himself, and went to the Birch-tree for his money.
Who acts: Simpleton · What happens: get up, dress, go · To what, where: simplicity, Birch tree
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 (Simpleton), 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 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 got | advmod |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Simpleton | det |
| 5 | Simpleton | Simpleton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 got | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dressed | punct |
| 9 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 got | xcomp |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 dressed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 tree | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 16 | Birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tree | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Birch | punct |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 money | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 money | nmod:poss |
| 21 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | the Simpleton | morning | early property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | dress | participle | the Simpleton not said here | simplicity | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the Simpleton not said here | the Birch tree | for simplicity's money | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location |
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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