Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 7
I killed him some time ago with my hatchet, and my brothers carried him into the cellar."
Who acts: I, brothers · What happens: kill, carry · To what, where: man, 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 (I, brothers), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 killed | nsubj |
| 2 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 killed | obj |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 2 killed | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 hatchet | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hatchet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 killed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 carried | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 carried | cc |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 carried | nsubj |
| 14 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 killed | parataxis |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 carried | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 cellar | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cellar | det |
| 18 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carried | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 carried | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | I | man | with my hatchet; ago property | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with hatchet=Instrument | |||
| 2 | carry | past | my brothers | man | the cellar | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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