Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 92
Well, they entered the cellar; there stood two tubs of water, the one on the right hand, the other on the left.
Who acts: sons · What happens: enter, stand · To what, where: cellar, two tubs
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 (sons), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 entered | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 entered | nsubj |
| 4 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cellar | det |
| 6 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 stood | advmod |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 entered | conj |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 tubs | nummod |
| 11 | tubs | tub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stood | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tubs | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 one | det |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tubs | nmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 hand | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hand | det |
| 19 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hand | amod |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 one | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 other | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 other | det |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 one | conj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 left | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 left | det |
| 26 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 other | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | sons = son | the cellar | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cellar=Destination | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | sons = son not said here | two tubs of water the one on the right hand | there | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tub=Stimulus |
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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