Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 92
His son succeeded to his place as head of the household, and took the smithy into his own hands.
Who acts: son · What happens: succeed, take · To what, where: smithy, own hands
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 (son), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 son | nmod:poss |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 succeeded | nsubj |
| 3 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 place | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 place | nmod:poss |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 succeeded | obl |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 place | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 household | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 household | det |
| 11 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 head | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 succeeded | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 smithy | det |
| 16 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 hands | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hands | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hands | amod |
| 20 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 took | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 succeeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed | past | DEMON's son | to DEMON's place as head of the household | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take | past | DEMON's son not said here | the smithy | DEMON's own hands | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent smithy=Theme into hand=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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