Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 97
How Woe showed him a treasure in the open field, how he took that treasure, and freed himself from Woe into the bargain.
Who acts: Woe, peasant · What happens: show, take, free · To what, where: treasure, peasant, open field, Woe
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, 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 showed | advmod |
| 2 | Woe | Woe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 showed | nsubj |
| 3 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 showed | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 treasure | det |
| 6 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 showed | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 field | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 field | det |
| 9 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 field | amod |
| 10 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 showed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 took | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 showed | parataxis |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 treasure | det |
| 16 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 freed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 freed | cc |
| 19 | freed | free | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 freed | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 Woe | case |
| 22 | Woe | Woe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 freed | obl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 bargain | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bargain | det |
| 25 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 freed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | Woe | a treasure | peasant | the open field | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient treasure=Topic | ||
| 2 | take | past | peasant | that treasure | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | ||||
| 3 | free | past | peasant not said here | peasant | Woe | into the bargain | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer himself=Source |
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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