Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 90
Twelve loads of firewood were set alight, and the stove and the walls were made red-hot--impossible to come within five versts of it.
Who acts: stove · What happens: set, make, come · To what, where: Twelve loads, stove
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 (stove), 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 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 loads | nummod |
| 2 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 set | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 firewood | case |
| 4 | firewood | firewood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 loads | nmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 set | aux:pass |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | alight | alight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 set | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stove | det |
| 11 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 walls | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 walls | det |
| 14 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stove | conj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 made | aux:pass |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 set | parataxis |
| 17 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hot | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 red | punct |
| 19 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 made | xcomp |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 impossible | punct |
| 21 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 made | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 come | mark |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 impossible | xcomp |
| 24 | within | within | ADP | _ | 26 versts | case |
| 25 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 versts | nummod |
| 26 | versts | verst | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 come | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 versts | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · passive | Twelve loads of firewood | alight property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | the stove and the walls | hot property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | the stove and the walls not said here | within five versts of firewood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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