Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 125
They sometimes found rags on the dust-heaps, and with these they managed to cover their bodies.
Who acts: toil · What happens: find, manage, cover · To what, where: rags, dust heaps, bodies
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (toil), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 2 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 found | advmod |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | rags | rag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 found | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 heaps | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 heaps | det |
| 7 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heaps | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 dust | punct |
| 9 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 found | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 managed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 managed | cc |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 these | case |
| 13 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 managed | obl |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 managed | nsubj |
| 15 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 cover | mark |
| 17 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 managed | xcomp |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 19 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 cover | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | toil | rags | the dust heaps | sometimes property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rag=Topic | ||
| 2 | manage | past | toil | with these | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | cover | to-infinitive | toil not said here | toil's bodies | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme body=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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