Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 80
Woe jumped in: no sooner had it got there than the peasant closed the mouth of the pit with the stone.
Who acts: Woe, pit, peasant · What happens: jump in, have, get, close · To what, where: mouth
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 (Woe, pit, 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 | Woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 jumped | nsubj |
| 2 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 2 jumped | obl |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 sooner | det |
| 6 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 had | advmod |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 got | nsubj |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | ccomp |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 got | advmod |
| 11 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 closed | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 peasant | det |
| 13 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 closed | nsubj |
| 14 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 got | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mouth | det |
| 16 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 closed | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 pit | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 pit | det |
| 19 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mouth | nmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 stone | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 stone | det |
| 22 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pit | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump in | past | Woe | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | Woe not said here | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | past | pit | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | close | past | the peasant | the mouth of the pit with the stone | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=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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