Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 117
His brothers hoisted the stone to a great height, and then cut the rope.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: hoist, cut · To what, where: stone, great height, rope
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), 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 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hoisted | nsubj |
| 3 | hoisted | hoist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stone | det |
| 5 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hoisted | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 height | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 height | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 height | amod |
| 9 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hoisted | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cut | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cut | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 cut | advmod |
| 13 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 hoisted | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rope | det |
| 15 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cut | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hoisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hoist | past | rope's brothers | the stone | a great height | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme to height=Destination | |||
| 2 | cut | 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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