Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 45
Then from all sides there ran together carpenters and workmen; one levelled the ground, another carried bricks.
Who acts: sides, one, another · What happens: run, levell, carry · To what, where: carpenters, ground, bricks
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 (sides, one, another), 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 | 6 ran | advmod |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 sides | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 sides | det |
| 4 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ran | nsubj |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sides | advmod |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 ran | advmod |
| 8 | carpenters | carpenter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ran | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 workmen | cc |
| 10 | workmen | workman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 carpenters | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 levelled | punct |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 levelled | nsubj |
| 13 | levelled | levell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ran | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ground | det |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 levelled | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 carried | punct |
| 17 | another | another | PRON | PronType=Ind | 18 carried | nsubj |
| 18 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 levelled | conj |
| 19 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 carried | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | all sides | carpenters and workmen | then | together property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme carpenter=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | levell | past | one | the ground | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | another | bricks | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brick=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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