Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 53
Then it took them to another lake, into which they cast a mouldy log.
Who acts: it, Waters · What happens: take, cast · To what, where: Waters, lake, mouldy log
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 (it, Waters), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 lake | case |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 lake | det |
| 7 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cast | punct |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 cast | obl |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cast | nsubj |
| 12 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 log | det |
| 14 | mouldy | mouldy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 log | amod |
| 15 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cast | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | it | Waters = water | another lake | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to lake=Destination | ||
| 2 | cast | past | Waters = water | a mouldy log | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent log=Material into which=Product |
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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