Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 38
The orphan received the sack of gold, took leave of the merchant, and went to the strand, where the shipmen were.
Who acts: orphan, shipmen · What happens: receive, take, go, be · To what, where: sack, leave, strand
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 (orphan, shipmen), 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 orphan | det |
| 2 | orphan | orphan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 received | nsubj |
| 3 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sack | det |
| 5 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 received | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 gold | case |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sack | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 received | parataxis |
| 10 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 merchant | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 merchant | det |
| 13 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leave | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 strand | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 strand | det |
| 19 | strand | strand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 were | punct |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 were | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 shipmen | det |
| 23 | shipmen | shipmen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 were | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 went | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | the orphan | the sack of gold | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | leave of the merchant | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past | the strand | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to strand=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | be | past | the shipmen | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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