Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 66
He took his sheep-skin pelisse and turned it inside out so that the wool was outside, passed his arms through its sleeves, and pulled it well over him, and crept up to her as he had been a sheep.
Who acts: smith, wool · What happens: take, turn out, be, pass, pull, creep up · To what, where: skin pelisse, pelisse, arms, sleeves, wool, sheep
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 (smith, wool), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 pelisse | nmod:poss |
| 4 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 skin | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 sheep | punct |
| 6 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pelisse | compound |
| 7 | pelisse | pelisse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 turned | cc |
| 9 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 turned | obj |
| 11 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 9 turned | advmod |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 turned | advmod |
| 13 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 18 outside | mark |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 so | fixed |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wool | det |
| 16 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 outside | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 outside | cop |
| 18 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 9 turned | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 passed | punct |
| 20 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 arms | nmod:poss |
| 22 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 passed | obj |
| 23 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 sleeves | case |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 sleeves | nmod:poss |
| 25 | sleeves | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 passed | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 pulled | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 pulled | cc |
| 28 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 pulled | obj |
| 30 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 pulled | advmod |
| 31 | over | over | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 pulled | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 crept | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 crept | cc |
| 35 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 36 | up | up | ADP | _ | 35 crept | compound:prt |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 her | case |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 crept | obl |
| 39 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 sheep | mark |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 sheep | nsubj |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 sheep | aux |
| 42 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 44 sheep | cop |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 sheep | det |
| 44 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 crept | advcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | smith | smith's skin pelisse | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pelisse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn out | past | smith not said here | pelisse | inside, out property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | the wool | outside property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pass | past | smith's arms | wool's sleeves | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arm=Theme through sleeve=Destination | ||||
| 5 | pull | past | smith not said here | wool | over smith; well property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 6 | creep up | past | smith not said here | sheep | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to she=Destination | ||||
| 7 | is a | past · perfect | smith | a sheep | tree rules |
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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