Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 80
When it had crowed for the third time, the Head fell to pieces, and became a heap of golden coins."
Who acts: Head · What happens: crow, fall, become · To what, where: carriage, heap
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 (Head), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 crowed | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 crowed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crowed | aux |
| 4 | crowed | crow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crowed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Head | det |
| 11 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crowed | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 pieces | case |
| 14 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fell | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 became | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 became | cc |
| 17 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fell | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 heap | det |
| 19 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 became | xcomp |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 coins | case |
| 21 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 coins | amod |
| 22 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 heap | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crowed | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 crowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crow | past · perfect · passive | carriage | time | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | the Head | to pieces | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to piece=Theme | ||||
| 3 | become | past | the Head not said here | a heap of golden coins | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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