Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 127
The Demon took the money; then he sent the lady's coachman into the village.
Who acts: Demon, money · What happens: take, send · To what, where: money, coachman, village
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Demon, money), 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 Demon | det |
| 2 | Demon | Demon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 money | det |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 sent | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 sent | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sent | nsubj |
| 9 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lady | det |
| 11 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 coachman | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 lady | case |
| 13 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 village | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 village | det |
| 16 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Demon | the money | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | past | money | the lady's coachman | the village | then | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coachman=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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