Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 84
Not far off, Frost was cracking away on a fir.
Who acts: Frost · What happens: crack away · To what, where: fir
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 (Frost), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 far | advmod |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 cracking | advmod |
| 3 | off | off | ADV | _ | 2 far | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 far | punct |
| 5 | Frost | Frost | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cracking | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cracking | aux |
| 7 | cracking | crack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 cracking | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 fir | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fir | det |
| 11 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cracking | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cracking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crack away | past · progressive | Frost | a fir | away, far property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fir=Location |
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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