Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 115
Scarcely did its walls hold together, covered all over with moss.
Who acts: Scarcely, walls · What happens: do, hold together, cover
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, walls), 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 | Scarcely | Scarcely | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 walls | nmod:poss |
| 4 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hold | nsubj |
| 5 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 hold | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 covered | punct |
| 8 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 hold | conj |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 over | advmod |
| 10 | over | over | ADV | _ | 8 covered | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 moss | case |
| 12 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 covered | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Scarcely | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hold together | present | church's walls | together property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cover | participle | church's walls not said here | with moss; over property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with moss=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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