Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 119
The boat floated to the shore: the woman took the fish, gave her boy food and drink, changed his shirt for him and his girdle, and sent him back to his fishing.
Who acts: boat, woman, Ivashko · What happens: float, take, give, change, send back, fish · To what, where: shore, fish, boy food, woman, shirt, Ivashko
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boat, woman, Ivashko), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boat | det |
| 2 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 floated | nsubj |
| 3 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 shore | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shore | det |
| 6 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 floated | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 floated | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fish | det |
| 12 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | iobj |
| 16 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 food | compound |
| 17 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 drink | cc |
| 19 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 food | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 changed | punct |
| 21 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 shirt | nmod:poss |
| 23 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 changed | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 changed | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 girdle | cc |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 girdle | nmod:poss |
| 28 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 him | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sent | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 sent | cc |
| 31 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 sent | obj |
| 33 | back | back | ADV | _ | 31 sent | advmod |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 fishing | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 fishing | nmod:poss |
| 36 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sent | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 floated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | past | the boat | the shore | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Destination | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the woman | the fish | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument fish=Destination | ||||
| 3 | give | past | the woman not said here | boy food and drink | woman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient food=Theme | |||
| 4 | change | past | the woman not said here | Ivashko's shirt | for Ivashko | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme for he=Co-Theme | |||
| 5 | send back | past | the woman not said here | Ivashko | Ivashko's fishing | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to fishing=Destination | |||
| 6 | fish | Ivashko | nom fishing «act transitive»: poss=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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