Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 145

Some one or other, you see, has mixed a lot of earth with it out of spite."

Who acts: you · What happens: see, mix · To what, where: lot, spite

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 (you), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 one	det
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 other	cc
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 one	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 see	nsubj
7	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 one	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mixed	punct
9	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 mixed	aux
10	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 see	xcomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 lot	det
12	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mixed	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 earth	case
14	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lot	nmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 mixed	obl
17	out	out	ADP	_	19 spite	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 spite	case
19	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mixed	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	you						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	mix	present · perfect	you not said here	a lot of earth		spite		with earth	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent lot=Patient with it=Co-Patient

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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