Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 143
Then open the red coffer in the back court, and the green coffer in the front court."
Who acts: you · What happens: open · To what, where: red coffer, back court
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 open | advmod |
| 2 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 coffer | det |
| 4 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 coffer | amod |
| 5 | coffer | coffer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 open | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 court | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 court | det |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 court | compound |
| 9 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 open | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 coffer | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 coffer | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 coffer | det |
| 13 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 coffer | amod |
| 14 | coffer | coffer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 open | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 court | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 court | det |
| 17 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 court | amod |
| 18 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 coffer | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 open | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | imperative | you not said here | the red coffer | the back court | then | the green coffer in the front court obl | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent coffer=Theme in court=Location |
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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