Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 154
How shall I be able to get all this great herd into so small a coffer?"
Who acts: I · What happens: be, get · To what, where: great herd, small coffer
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 (I), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 able | advmod |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 able | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 able | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 able | cop |
| 5 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 able | xcomp |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 herd | det:predet |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 herd | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 herd | amod |
| 11 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 coffer | case |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 small | advmod |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 coffer | amod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 coffer | det |
| 16 | coffer | coffer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 able | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | shall | I | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | I not said here | all great herd | a small coffer | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herd=Stimulus |
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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