Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 134
Woe slipped into the wheel; the merchant caught up the oaken wedge, and drove it into the axle-box from the other side.
Who acts: Woe, merchant · What happens: slip, catch up, drive · To what, where: wheel, oaken wedge, axle box
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woe, merchant), 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 | Woe | Woe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 slipped | nsubj |
| 2 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 wheel | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wheel | det |
| 5 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 slipped | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 caught | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 merchant | det |
| 8 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caught | nsubj |
| 9 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 slipped | parataxis |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 caught | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wedge | det |
| 12 | oaken | oaken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wedge | amod |
| 13 | wedge | wedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caught | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 drove | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 drove | cc |
| 16 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 slipped | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 drove | obj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 box | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 box | det |
| 20 | axle | axle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 box | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 axle | punct |
| 22 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drove | obl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 side | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 side | det |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 side | amod |
| 26 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drove | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip | past | Woe | the wheel | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | catch up | participle | the merchant | the oaken wedge | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedge=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drive | past | Woe not said here | wheel | the axle box | from the other side | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into box=Destination from side=Initial_Location |
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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