Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 126
Vertodub was delighted, thanked the Prince, and set to work uprooting the ancient oaks.
Who acts: Vertodub · What happens: be, thank, set, work, uproot · To what, where: Prince, ancient oaks
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vertodub), 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 | Vertodub | Vertodub | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 delighted | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 delighted | cop |
| 3 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 thanked | punct |
| 5 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 delighted | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Prince | det |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 thanked | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 set | cc |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 delighted | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 work | mark |
| 12 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 set | xcomp |
| 13 | uprooting | uproot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 work | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 oaks | det |
| 15 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 oaks | amod |
| 16 | oaks | oak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 uprooting | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Vertodub | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | past | Vertodub not said here | the Prince | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set | infinitive | Vertodub not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | work | to-infinitive | Vertodub not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | uproot | gerund | Vertodub not said here | the ancient oaks | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oak=Theme |
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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