Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 40
So he took the cart and the sledge, dragged them to the pot-house, and there he and Woe drank them away.
Who acts: peasant · What happens: take, drag, drink away · To what, where: cart, pot house
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 (peasant), 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 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cart | det |
| 5 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sledge | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sledge | det |
| 8 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cart | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dragged | punct |
| 10 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dragged | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 14 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 house | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 pot | punct |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dragged | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 drank | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 drank | cc |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 drank | expl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 drank | nsubj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Woe | cc |
| 22 | Woe | Woe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 he | conj |
| 23 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 drank | obj |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 drank | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | peasant | the cart and the sledge | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drag | past | peasant not said here | cart | the pot house | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to house=Destination | |||
| 3 | drink away | past | peasant | cart | there | away property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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