Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 130
When the buckets of milk were brought, he emptied them into a large tub, then he collected all the bones and flung them into the milk.
Who acts: money · What happens: bring, empty, collect, fling · To what, where: buckets, large tub, bones, milk
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 (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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 brought | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 buckets | det |
| 3 | buckets | bucket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 milk | case |
| 5 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buckets | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 brought | aux:pass |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 emptied | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 brought | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 emptied | nsubj |
| 10 | emptied | empty | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 emptied | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 tub | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tub | det |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tub | amod |
| 15 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 emptied | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 collected | punct |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 collected | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 collected | nsubj |
| 19 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 emptied | parataxis |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 bones | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bones | det |
| 22 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 collected | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 flung | cc |
| 24 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 collected | conj |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 flung | obj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 milk | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 milk | det |
| 28 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 flung | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 emptied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | the buckets of milk | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | empty | past | money | buckets = bucket | a large tub | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into tub=Destination | |||
| 3 | collect | past | money | all bones | then | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme | |||
| 4 | fling | past | money not said here | buckets = bucket | the milk | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme into milk=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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