Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 73
The peasant set to work and filled the cart with gold; cleared the pit to the very last ducat.
Who acts: peasant set · What happens: work, fill, clear · To what, where: cart, pit, last ducat
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 set), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 set | det |
| 2 | peasant | peasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 set | amod |
| 3 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cleared | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 work | mark |
| 5 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 set | acl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 filled | cc |
| 7 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 work | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cart | det |
| 9 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filled | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 gold | case |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cart | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
| 13 | cleared | clear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pit | det |
| 15 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cleared | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 ducat | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ducat | det |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 last | advmod |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ducat | amod |
| 20 | ducat | ducat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cleared | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 cleared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | to-infinitive | the peasant set not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fill | past | the peasant set not said here | the cart | with gold | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cart=Patient with gold=Instrument | |||
| 3 | clear | past | the peasant set | the pit | the last ducat | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination»: agent=Agent pit=Theme to ducat=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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