Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 9
He couldn't supply goods fast enough; purchasers carried off everything in a twinkling.
Who acts: business, purchasers · What happens: not supply, carry off · To what, where: goods, everything, twinkling
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 (business, purchasers), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 supply | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 supply | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 supply | advmod |
| 4 | supply | supply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 supply | obj |
| 6 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 supply | advmod |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 6 fast | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 carried | punct |
| 9 | purchasers | purchaser | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 carried | nsubj |
| 10 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 supply | parataxis |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 carried | compound:prt |
| 12 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 carried | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 twinkling | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 twinkling | det |
| 15 | twinkling | twinkling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 supply | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not supply | could | business | goods | fast property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Recipient | |||
| 2 | carry off | past | purchasers | everything | a twinkling | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent everything=Value in twinkling=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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