Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 172
Afterwards he went into the back court, opened the red coffer, and thence issued oxen and cows, sheep and rams; there were multitudes of all sorts of cattle, so that all the sheds and pastures were crammed full.
Who acts: Prince, multitudes · What happens: go, open, issue, be, cram, sort · To what, where: back court, red coffer, issued oxen, cattle
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 (Prince, multitudes), 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 | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 court | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 court | det |
| 6 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 court | compound |
| 7 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 opened | punct |
| 9 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 coffer | det |
| 11 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 coffer | amod |
| 12 | coffer | coffer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 opened | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 crammed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 crammed | cc |
| 15 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 16 issued | advmod |
| 16 | issued | issue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 oxen | amod |
| 17 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 crammed | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 cows | cc |
| 19 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 oxen | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sheep | punct |
| 21 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 oxen | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 rams | cc |
| 23 | rams | ram | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 oxen | conj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 were | punct |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 were | expl |
| 26 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 crammed | advcl |
| 27 | multitudes | multitude | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 were | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 sorts | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 sorts | det |
| 30 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 multitudes | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 cattle | case |
| 32 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 sorts | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 crammed | punct |
| 34 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 42 crammed | mark |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 so | fixed |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 sheds | det:predet |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 sheds | det |
| 38 | sheds | shed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 crammed | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 pastures | cc |
| 40 | pastures | pasture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 sheds | conj |
| 41 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 crammed | aux:pass |
| 42 | crammed | cram | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 43 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 crammed | xcomp |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Prince | the back court | afterwards property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into court=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | open | past | Prince not said here | the red coffer | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location coffer=Theme | ||||
| 3 | issue | participle | thence property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | be | past | multitudes of all sorts of cattle | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | cram | past · passive | issued oxen and cows and sheep and rams | full property | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 6 | sort | cattle | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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