Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 82
The peasant got home, shovelled the money into his cellar, took the oxen back to his neighbor, and set about considering how he should manage.
Who acts: peasant · What happens: get, shovell, take back, set, consider, manage · To what, where: money, cellar, oxen, neighbor
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 peasant | det |
| 2 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 shovelled | punct |
| 6 | shovelled | shovell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 money | det |
| 8 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shovelled | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 cellar | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cellar | nmod:poss |
| 11 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shovelled | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shovelled | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 oxen | det |
| 15 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 took | obj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 took | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 neighbor | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 neighbor | nmod:poss |
| 19 | neighbor | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 set | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 set | cc |
| 22 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | parataxis |
| 23 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 24 considering | mark |
| 24 | considering | consider | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 set | advcl |
| 25 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 manage | advmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 manage | nsubj |
| 27 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 manage | aux |
| 28 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 considering | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the peasant | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | shovell | past | the peasant not said here | the money | peasant's cellar | tree rules | |||
| 3 | take back | past | the peasant not said here | the oxen | peasant's neighbor | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ox=Theme to neighbor=Destination | |||
| 4 | set | infinitive | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | consider | gerund | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | manage | should | peasant | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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