Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 71
Well, when they had lifted it there was a pit underneath chock full of gold.
Who acts: stick, pit · What happens: lift, be · To what, where: place
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 (stick, pit), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 lifted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 lifted | advmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lifted | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lifted | aux |
| 6 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lifted | obj |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lifted | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pit | det |
| 11 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | nsubj |
| 12 | underneath | underneath | ADP | _ | 13 chock | case |
| 13 | chock | chock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pit | nmod |
| 14 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 chock | amod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 gold | case |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 full | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past · perfect | stick | place | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | past | a pit underneath chock | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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