Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 169
So he takes his wife's last sarafan, wraps up the pitcher in it, and flings the bundle into an ice-hole.
Who acts: moujik · What happens: take, wrap up, fling · To what, where: last sarafan, pitcher, bundle, ice hole
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 (moujik), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 takes | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 takes | nsubj |
| 3 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sarafan | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 wife | case |
| 7 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sarafan | amod |
| 8 | sarafan | sarafan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 takes | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wraps | punct |
| 10 | wraps | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 takes | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 wraps | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pitcher | det |
| 13 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wraps | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wraps | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 flings | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 flings | cc |
| 18 | flings | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 takes | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bundle | det |
| 20 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 flings | obj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 hole | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 hole | det |
| 23 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hole | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 ice | punct |
| 25 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 flings | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | moujik | moujik's wife's last sarafan | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sarafan=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wrap up | present | moujik not said here | the pitcher | pitcher | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pitcher=Theme in it=Destination | |||
| 3 | fling | present | moujik not said here | the bundle | a ice hole | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme into hole=Destination |
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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