Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 166
"Old man, go and get the sledge harnessed; put an armful of hay in it, and take some sheep-skin wraps.
Who acts: Old man, sledge · What happens: go, get, harness, put, take · To what, where: sledge, armful, hay, skin wraps
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Old man, sledge), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 2 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 get | cc |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sledge | det |
| 9 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obj |
| 10 | harnessed | harness | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 get | xcomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 put | punct |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | conj |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 armful | det |
| 14 | armful | armful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hay | case |
| 16 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 armful | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 put | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 take | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 take | cc |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | parataxis |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 wraps | det |
| 23 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 skin | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 sheep | punct |
| 25 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wraps | compound |
| 26 | wraps | wrap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 take | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | infinitive | Old man | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get in a quote | infinitive | Old man not said here | the sledge | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | harness in a quote | participle | the sledge not said here | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | put in a quote | infinitive | Old man not said here | a armful of hay | hay | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent armful=Theme in it=Destination | |||
| 5 | take in a quote | infinitive | some skin wraps | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrap=Theme |
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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