Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 115
But Ivan and his brothers threw three poods of salt into her mouth.
Who acts: Ivan · What happens: throw · To what, where: three poods, mouth
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 threw | cc |
| 2 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 brothers | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Ivan | conj |
| 6 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 poods | nummod |
| 8 | poods | pood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 threw | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 salt | case |
| 10 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 poods | nmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 mouth | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 threw | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | Ivan and IVAN's brothers | three poods of salt | into wife's mouth result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer pood=Theme into mouth=Result |
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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