Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 44
Even his very cottage he pledged to a neighbor, and the money he got that way he took to the pot-house.
Who acts: cottage, money, peasant · What happens: pledge, get, take · To what, where: neighbor, way, 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 (cottage, money, 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 4 cottage | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 cottage | nmod:poss |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 cottage | advmod |
| 4 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pledged | nsubj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pledged | nsubj |
| 6 | pledged | pledge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 neighbor | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 neighbor | det |
| 9 | neighbor | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pledged | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 got | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 money | det |
| 13 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | nsubj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 got | nsubj |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pledged | conj |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 way | det |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 took | nsubj |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 way | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 house | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 house | det |
| 22 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 house | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 pot | punct |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pledged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pledge | past | peasant's cottage | a neighbor | vn promise-37.13 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to neighbor=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | get | past | the money | that way | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | take | past | peasant | that way not said here | the pot house | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme to house=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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