Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 139
But a draught of water which they take by the way gets into their heads, and they set up a song.
Who acts: merchants, draught · What happens: take, get, set up · To what, where: draught, heads, song
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 (merchants, draught), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 gets | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 draught | det |
| 3 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gets | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 water | case |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 draught | nmod |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 take | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 take | nsubj |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 draught | acl:relcl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 way | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 way | det |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obl |
| 12 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 heads | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heads | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gets | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 set | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 set | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 set | nsubj |
| 19 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 gets | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 set | compound:prt |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 song | det |
| 22 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 set | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | merchants = merchant | a draught of water | by the way | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | |||
| 2 | get | present | a draught of water | merchants's heads | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into head=Destination | ||||
| 3 | set up | past | merchants = merchant | a song | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient song=Result |
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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