Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 113
And when they had hauled it up, and had set eyes on the wondrous maidens, they went aside and said: "Let's lower the rope, pull our brother part of the way up, and then cut the rope.
Who acts: brothers, 's · What happens: haul up, set, go, say, let, lower · To what, where: hold, eyes, wondrous maidens, 's, rope, brother part · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, 's), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hauled | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 hauled | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hauled | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hauled | aux |
| 5 | hauled | haul | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hauled | obj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 hauled | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 set | aux |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 hauled | parataxis |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 set | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 maidens | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 maidens | det |
| 15 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 maidens | amod |
| 16 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 set | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 set | parataxis |
| 20 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 went | conj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 Let | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Let | punct |
| 25 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 said | ccomp |
| 26 | 's | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 Let | obj |
| 27 | lower | lower | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 Let | xcomp |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 rope | det |
| 29 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lower | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 pull | punct |
| 31 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 Let | conj |
| 32 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 part | nmod:poss |
| 33 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 part | compound |
| 34 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 pull | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 way | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 way | det |
| 37 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 part | nmod |
| 38 | up | up | ADV | _ | 37 way | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 cut | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 cut | cc |
| 41 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 42 cut | advmod |
| 42 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 Let | advcl |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 rope | det |
| 44 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 cut | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hauled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | haul up | past · perfect | brothers = brother | hold | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set | past · perfect | eyes | the wondrous maidens | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on maiden=Destination | ||||
| 3 | go | past | brothers = brother | aside property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | brothers = brother not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | let in a quote | infinitive | 's | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | lower in a quote | infinitive | 's not said here | the rope | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme | ||||
| 7 | pull in a quote | infinitive | our brother part of the way | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | |||||
| 8 | cut in a quote | infinitive | the rope | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rope=Product |
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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