Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 142
There appeared three pairs of hands, which gathered up the wheat, and carried it out of sight.
Who acts: three pairs · What happens: appear, gather up, carry · To what, where: three pairs, wheat, sight
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three pairs), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 appeared | expl |
| 2 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 pairs | nummod |
| 4 | pairs | pair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 appeared | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 hands | case |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pairs | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gathered | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 gathered | nsubj |
| 9 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pairs | acl:relcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 gathered | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wheat | det |
| 12 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gathered | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 carried | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 carried | cc |
| 15 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 appeared | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 carried | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 sight | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sight | case |
| 19 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carried | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | three pairs of hands | there | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pair=Theme | ||||
| 2 | gather up | past | three pairs of hands | the wheat | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | wheat | sight | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme out sight=Initial_Location |
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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