Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 77
Presently he saw a golden-handled hatchet sticking in a tree, and he felt a strong desire to seize it.
Who acts: smith, handled hatchet · What happens: see, handle, stick, feel, seize · To what, where: handled hatchet, tree, strong desire, desire
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, handled hatchet), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hatchet | det |
| 5 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 handled | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 golden | punct |
| 7 | handled | handle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 hatchet | amod |
| 8 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 9 | sticking | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 hatchet | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sticking | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 felt | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 felt | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 felt | nsubj |
| 16 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 desire | det |
| 18 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 desire | amod |
| 19 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 felt | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 seize | mark |
| 21 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 felt | advcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 seize | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | smith | a handled hatchet | presently property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hatchet=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | handle | participle | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | stick | gerund | a handled hatchet not said here | a tree | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in tree=Destination | ||||
| 4 | feel | past | smith | a strong desire | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Theme | ||||
| 5 | seize | to-infinitive | smith not said here | desire | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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