Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 186
With that he pitched into it with his hatchet, so that its chips flew about in all directions.
Who acts: neighbor, chips · What happens: pitch, fly · To what, where: promise
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 (neighbor, chips), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 pitched | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pitched | nsubj |
| 4 | pitched | pitch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pitched | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 hatchet | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hatchet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pitched | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flew | punct |
| 11 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 15 flew | mark |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 so | fixed |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 chips | nmod:poss |
| 14 | chips | chip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 flew | nsubj |
| 15 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pitched | conj |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 directions | case |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 directions | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 directions | det |
| 19 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 flew | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pitched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pitch | past | neighbor | promise | with that; with neighbor's hatchet | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent into it=Destination | |||
| 2 | fly | past | promise's chips | about all directions | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about direction=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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