Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 116
Dropping right into his cellar, Vikhor ran to the tub which stood on the right, and began drinking the Water of Weakness.
Who acts: Vikhor, tub · What happens: drop, run, stand, begin, drink · To what, where: cellar, tub, right, Water
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vikhor, tub), 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 | Dropping | drop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 ran | advcl |
| 2 | right | right | ADV | _ | 5 cellar | advmod |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 cellar | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 cellar | nmod:poss |
| 5 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dropping | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dropping | punct |
| 7 | Vikhor | Vikhor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ran | nsubj |
| 8 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 tub | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tub | det |
| 11 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ran | obl |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 stood | nsubj |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 tub | acl:relcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 right | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 right | det |
| 16 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 began | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 began | cc |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ran | conj |
| 20 | drinking | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 began | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Water | det |
| 22 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 drinking | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Weakness | case |
| 24 | Weakness | Weakness | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Water | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | gerund | Vikhor not said here | Vikhor's cellar | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cellar=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | past | Vikhor | the tub | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to tub=Destination | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | the tub | the right | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on right=Location | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | Vikhor not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | drink | gerund | Vikhor not said here | the Water of Weakness | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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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