Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 9
The Simpleton went down into the cellar, got hold of the goat's head, and asked:--
Who acts: Simpleton · What happens: go down, get, ask, hold · To what, where: cellar, hold, head
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 (Simpleton), 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 Simpleton | det |
| 2 | Simpleton | Simpleton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 cellar | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cellar | det |
| 7 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 head | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 goat | det |
| 13 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 goat | case |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hold | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 asked | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 asked | cc |
| 18 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 asked | punct |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | the Simpleton | the cellar | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | get | past | the Simpleton not said here | hold of the goat's head | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | hold | the goat's head | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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