Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 57
At the same moment he caught up a hatchet, and hammered away vigorously with the back of it at the awl.
Who acts: cord · What happens: catch up, hammer away · To what, where: hatchet
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cord), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moment | amod |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caught | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 caught | nsubj |
| 6 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 caught | compound:prt |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hatchet | det |
| 9 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caught | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hammered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hammered | cc |
| 12 | hammered | hammer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 caught | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 hammered | advmod |
| 14 | vigorously | vigorously | ADV | _ | 12 hammered | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 back | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 back | det |
| 17 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hammered | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 back | nmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 awl | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 awl | det |
| 22 | awl | awl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hammered | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch up | past | cord | a hatchet | moment | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatchet=Theme | |||
| 2 | hammer away | past | cord not said here | with the back of back; at the awl; away, vigorously property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with back=Instrument at awl=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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