Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 74
The old man silently placed the things on the sledge, made his daughter put on a warm pelisse, and set off on the journey.
Who acts: old man, daughter · What happens: place, make, put, set off · To what, where: things, sledge, daughter, warm pelisse, journey
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, daughter), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 placed | nsubj |
| 4 | silently | silently | ADV | _ | 5 placed | advmod |
| 5 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 things | det |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 placed | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 sledge | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sledge | det |
| 10 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 placed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 placed | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obj |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 made | xcomp |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 pelisse | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 pelisse | det |
| 18 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 pelisse | amod |
| 19 | pelisse | pelisse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 set | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 set | cc |
| 22 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 placed | conj |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 set | compound:prt |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 journey | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 journey | det |
| 26 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 set | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | the old man | the things | the sledge | silently property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme on sledge=Destination | ||
| 2 | make | past | the old man not said here | man's daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put | participle | man's daughter not said here | a warm pelisse | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on pelisse=Destination | ||||
| 4 | set off | past | the old man not said here | the journey | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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