Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 60

The old man tied a log to a tree; when the wind blew, the log rattled.

Who acts: old man, wind · What happens: tie, blow, rattle · To what, where: log

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. 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, wind), 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	4 tied	nsubj
4	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 log	det
6	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tied	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 tree	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tied	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 blew	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 blew	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wind	det
13	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 blew	nsubj
14	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tied	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 log	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 log	det
17	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 blew	obj
18	rattled	rattle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 blew	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tie	past	the old man	a log	to a tree	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent log=Patient to tree=Co-Patient
2	blow	past	the wind	the log		tree rules
3	rattle	participle	the wind not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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