Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 86
Opivalo appeared, emptied all the forty tubs in a twinkling, and then asked for a drop more by way of stirrup-cup.
Who acts: Opivalo · What happens: appear, empty, ask · To what, where: forty tubs, twinkling
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 (Opivalo), 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 | Opivalo | Opivalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 appeared | nsubj |
| 2 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 emptied | punct |
| 4 | emptied | empty | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 appeared | conj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 tubs | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tubs | det |
| 7 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 tubs | nummod |
| 8 | tubs | tub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 emptied | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 twinkling | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 twinkling | det |
| 11 | twinkling | twinkling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tubs | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 asked | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 asked | advmod |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 appeared | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 drop | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 drop | det |
| 18 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obl |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 asked | advmod |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 way | case |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 cup | case |
| 23 | stirrup | stirrup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cup | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 stirrup | punct |
| 25 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 way | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | Opivalo | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | empty | past | Opivalo not said here | all forty tubs | a twinkling | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent tub=Source | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Opivalo not said here | then | for a drop; by way of stirrup cup | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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