Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 145
Afterwards they all three met, broke open the barrel, took out the remains of Prince Ivan, washed them, and put them together in fitting order.
Who acts: Ivan · What happens: meet, break, open, take out, wash, put · To what, where: barrel, remains, Ivan, fitting order
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. 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 | Afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 5 met | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 met | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 three | det |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 met | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 broke | punct |
| 7 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 met | conj |
| 8 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 broke | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 barrel | det |
| 10 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 open | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 met | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 took | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 remains | det |
| 15 | remains | remains | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 12 took | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Ivan | case |
| 17 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Ivan | compound |
| 18 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 remains | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 washed | punct |
| 20 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 took | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 washed | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 put | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 put | cc |
| 24 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 washed | advcl |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 put | obj |
| 26 | together | together | ADV | _ | 24 put | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 order | case |
| 28 | fitting | fitting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 order | amod |
| 29 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 put | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Ivan | afterwards property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | break | past | Ivan not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | open | infinitive | Ivan not said here | the barrel | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location barrel=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take out | past | Ivan not said here | the remains of Prince Ivan | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remains=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wash | past | Ivan not said here | Ivan | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 6 | put | infinitive | Ivan not said here | Ivan | fitting order | together property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in order=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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