Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 24
In one place, a cow is being hoisted on to a roof in order that it may eat the grass growing thereon; in another a horse is being inserted into its collar by sheer force; in a third, a woman is fetching milk from the cellar, a spoonful at a time.
Who acts: order, grass, sheer force, woman · What happens: hoist, eat, grow, insert, fetch · To what, where: cow, one place, grass, collar, milk, cellar
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 (order, grass, sheer force, woman), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 place | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 place | nummod |
| 3 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hoisted | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 place | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cow | det |
| 6 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hoisted | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 hoisted | aux:pass |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 hoisted | aux:pass |
| 9 | hoisted | hoist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 roof | case |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 roof | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 roof | det |
| 13 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hoisted | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 order | case |
| 15 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 roof | nmod |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 eat | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 eat | nsubj |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 eat | aux |
| 19 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 order | acl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 grass | det |
| 21 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eat | obj |
| 22 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 grass | acl |
| 23 | thereon | thereon | ADV | _ | 22 growing | advmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 inserted | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 horse | case |
| 26 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 horse | det |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 horse | det |
| 28 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 inserted | obl |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 inserted | aux:pass |
| 30 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 inserted | aux:pass |
| 31 | inserted | insert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 hoisted | conj |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 collar | case |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 collar | nmod:poss |
| 34 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 inserted | obl |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 force | case |
| 36 | sheer | sheer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 force | amod |
| 37 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 inserted | obl |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 third | punct |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 third | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 third | det |
| 41 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hoisted | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 fetching | punct |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 woman | det |
| 44 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 fetching | nsubj |
| 45 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 fetching | aux |
| 46 | fetching | fetch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 third | conj |
| 47 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 fetching | obj |
| 48 | from | from | ADP | _ | 50 cellar | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 cellar | det |
| 50 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 fetching | obl |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 spoonful | punct |
| 52 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 spoonful | det |
| 53 | spoonful | spoonful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 third | conj |
| 54 | at | at | ADP | _ | 56 time | case |
| 55 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 56 time | det |
| 56 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 spoonful | nmod |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hoisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hoist | present · passive | a cow | one place | on a roof in order; in a third and a spoonful at a time | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme in place=Destination on roof=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | eat | may | order | the grass | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient | ||||
| 3 | grow | gerund | the grass not said here | thereon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | insert | present · passive | sheer force | order's collar | in another horse | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in horse=Destination | |||
| 5 | fetch | present · progressive | a woman | milk | the cellar | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent milk=Theme from cellar=Source |
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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