Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 78
Well, he did seize that hatchet, and his hand stuck fast to it.
Who acts: smith, hand · What happens: seize, stick · 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 (smith, hand), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 seize | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seize | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seize | aux |
| 5 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 hatchet | det |
| 7 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seize | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stuck | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stuck | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hand | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stuck | nsubj |
| 12 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seize | parataxis |
| 13 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 stuck | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stuck | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seize | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past · do-support | smith | that hatchet | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatchet=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stick | past | smith's hand | hatchet | fast property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to it=Co-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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