Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 45
For twelve whole years Ivan lay among the ashes from the stove; but then he arose, and shook himself, so that six poods of ashes[75] fell off from him.
Who acts: Ivan, six poods · What happens: lie, arise, shake, fall off · To what, where: stove, IVAN
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, six poods), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 2 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 years | amod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lay | obl |
| 5 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | nsubj |
| 6 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 9 ashes | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ashes | det |
| 9 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lay | obl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 stove | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stove | det |
| 12 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 arose | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 arose | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 arose | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 arose | nsubj |
| 17 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lay | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 shook | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 shook | cc |
| 20 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 arose | conj |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 shook | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 poods | punct |
| 23 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 26 poods | case |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 so | fixed |
| 25 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 poods | nummod |
| 26 | poods | pood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 fell | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 ashes | case |
| 28 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 poods | nmod |
| 29 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 30 75 | punct |
| 30 | 75 | 75 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 poods | appos |
| 31 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 30 75 | punct |
| 32 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 shook | parataxis |
| 33 | off | off | ADP | _ | 32 fell | compound:prt |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 fell | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | Ivan | the stove | year | among the ashes | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among ash=Location | ||
| 2 | arise | past | IVAN | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shake | past | IVAN not said here | IVAN | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fall off | past | six poods of ashes | from IVAN | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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