Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 121
Well they got ready and went off; Katoma was allotted the post of coachman.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: get, go off, allot · To what, where: Katoma
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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 | _ | 3 got | discourse |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 went | compound:prt |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 allotted | punct |
| 9 | Katoma | Katoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 allotted | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 allotted | aux:pass |
| 11 | allotted | allot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 got | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 post | det |
| 13 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 allotted | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 coachman | case |
| 15 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 post | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | eyes = eye | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go off | past | eyes = eye not said here | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | allot | past · passive | Katoma | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal post=Theme |
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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