Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 203
The Diachok uttered such an "Oh!"--then he flung himself on the gold, and began seizing handfuls of it and stuffing them into his pocket.
Who acts: Diachok · What happens: utter, fling, begin, seize, stuff · To what, where: an, Diachok, gold, handfuls, pocket
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 (Diachok), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Diachok | det |
| 2 | Diachok | Diachok | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 uttered | nsubj |
| 3 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 an | det:predet |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 uttered | obj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 flung | punct |
| 7 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 13 flung | discourse |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 Oh | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Oh | punct |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 Oh | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 flung | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 flung | nsubj |
| 13 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 an | acl:relcl |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 flung | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 gold | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 gold | det |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flung | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 began | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 began | cc |
| 20 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 flung | conj |
| 21 | seizing | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 began | xcomp |
| 22 | handfuls | handful | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 seizing | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 handfuls | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 stuffing | cc |
| 26 | stuffing | stuff | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 seizing | conj |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 stuffing | obj |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 pocket | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 30 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stuffing | obl | ||
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | utter speech: other | past | the Diachok | an | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent a=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fling | past | Diachok | Diachok | the gold | then | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on gold=Destination | ||
| 3 | begin | past | Diachok not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | seize | gerund | Diachok not said here | handfuls of gold | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stuff | gerund | Diachok not said here | handfuls = handful | Diachok's pocket | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into pocket=Destination |
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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