Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 153
Three pairs of hands appeared, gathered up the poppy seed, and bore it out of sight.
Who acts: Three pairs · What happens: appear, gather up, bear · To what, where: poppy seed, seed, 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 pairs | nummod |
| 2 | pairs | pair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 appeared | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 hands | case |
| 4 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pairs | nmod |
| 5 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gathered | punct |
| 7 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 appeared | conj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 gathered | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 seed | det |
| 10 | poppy | poppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seed | compound |
| 11 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gathered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bore | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bore | cc |
| 14 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 appeared | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bore | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 sight | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sight | case |
| 18 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bore | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | Three pairs of hands | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | gather up | past | Three pairs of hands not said here | the poppy seed | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bear | past | Three pairs of hands not said here | seed | sight | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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