Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 54
And the log straightway began to put forth buds and blossoms.
Who acts: log straightway · What happens: begin, put · To what, where: buds
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 (log straightway), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 began | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 straightway | det |
| 3 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 straightway | compound |
| 4 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | nsubj |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 put | mark |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 began | xcomp |
| 8 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 7 put | advmod |
| 9 | buds | bud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 put | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 blossoms | cc |
| 11 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 buds | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the log straightway | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | put | to-infinitive | the log straightway not said here | buds and blossoms | forth property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bud=Goal |
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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