Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 147
But the moment she sat down on the shovel, Ivashko instantly pitched her into the oven, slammed to the iron plate in front of it, ran out of the hut, shut the door, and hurriedly climbed up ever so high an oak-tree [which stood close by].
Who acts: moment, Ivashko, oak tree · What happens: sit down, pitch, slam, run, shut, climb up · To what, where: shovel, Alenka, oven, hut, door
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 (moment, Ivashko, oak tree), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 sat | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 sat | compound:prt |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 shovel | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shovel | det |
| 9 | shovel | shovel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pitched | punct |
| 11 | Ivashko | Ivashko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 pitched | nsubj |
| 12 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 13 pitched | advmod |
| 13 | pitched | pitch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sat | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 pitched | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 oven | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 oven | det |
| 17 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pitched | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 slammed | punct |
| 19 | slammed | slam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 oven | acl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 plate | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 plate | det |
| 22 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 plate | compound |
| 23 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 slammed | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 front | case |
| 25 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 plate | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 front | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 ran | punct |
| 29 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 pitched | conj |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 hut | case |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 hut | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 hut | det |
| 33 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ran | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 shut | punct |
| 35 | shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 ran | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 door | det |
| 37 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 shut | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 climbed | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 climbed | cc |
| 40 | hurriedly | hurriedly | ADV | _ | 41 climbed | advmod |
| 41 | climbed | climb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sat | parataxis |
| 42 | up | up | ADP | _ | 41 climbed | compound:prt |
| 43 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 45 high | advmod |
| 44 | so | so | ADV | _ | 45 high | advmod |
| 45 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 climbed | conj |
| 46 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 tree | det |
| 47 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 tree | compound |
| 48 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 47 oak | punct |
| 49 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 high | nsubj |
| 50 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 52 stood | punct |
| 51 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 52 stood | nsubj |
| 52 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 tree | acl |
| 53 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 52 stood | advmod |
| 54 | by | by | ADP | _ | 55 ] | case |
| 55 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 52 stood | punct |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | the moment | the shovel | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shovel=Location | ||||
| 2 | pitch | past | Ivashko | Alenka | the oven | instantly property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme into oven=Destination | ||
| 3 | slam | participle | the oven not said here | to the iron plate in front of shovel | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run | past | Ivashko not said here | the hut | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out hut=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | shut | infinitive | Ivashko not said here | the door | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||||
| 6 | climb up | participle | hurriedly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | stand | past | a oak tree | close property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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