Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 18

"Dig up that piece of ground."

Who acts: you · What happens: dig up · To what, where: piece

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 (you), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Dig	punct
2	Dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 Dig	compound:prt
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 piece	det
5	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Dig	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 ground	case
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 piece	nmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Dig	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Dig	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig up in a quote	imperative	you not said here	that piece of ground					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent piece=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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