Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 208
They thought and thought, and at last they dragged it to an empty cellar and flung it in there.
Who acts: skirts · What happens: think, drag, fling · To what, where: body, last
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 (skirts), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 thought | cc |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dragged | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dragged | cc |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 last | case |
| 8 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dragged | obl |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dragged | nsubj |
| 10 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | parataxis |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dragged | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 cellar | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cellar | det |
| 14 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cellar | amod |
| 15 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dragged | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 flung | cc |
| 17 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dragged | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 flung | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 there | case |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 flung | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | skirts = skirt | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | skirts = skirt not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | drag | past | skirts = skirt | body | last | to a empty cellar | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to cellar=Destination | ||
| 4 | fling | past | skirts = skirt not said here | body | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in there=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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