Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 161
So they gave the old woman a dish full of gold, but she took only one ducat.
Who acts: people, woman · What happens: give, take · To what, where: dish, old woman, one ducat
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, woman), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 gave | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 woman | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 woman | amod |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dish | det |
| 8 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dish | amod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 gold | case |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 full | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 one | advmod |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 ducat | nummod |
| 18 | ducat | ducat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | people | a dish | the old woman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient dish=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | past | woman | one ducat | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ducat=Theme |
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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