Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 187
Now, in that Birch-tree there was a hollow, and in that hollow some robbers had hidden a pot full of gold.
What happens: be, hide · To what, where: pot
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: 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 hollow | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 tree | det |
| 5 | Birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tree | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Birch | punct |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | obl |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hollow | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hollow | det |
| 11 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hidden | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hidden | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 hollow | case |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 hollow | nsubj |
| 16 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hidden | advcl |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 robbers | det |
| 18 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hollow | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 hidden | aux |
| 20 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 hollow | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pot | det |
| 22 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hidden | obj |
| 23 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pot | amod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 gold | case |
| 25 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 full | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 hollow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | now | hollow property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hide | past · perfect | a pot | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Patient |
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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