Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 3
And straightway he lighted a fire, burnt the head and the trunk, and scattered the ashes to the winds.
Who acts: straightway · What happens: light, burnt, scatter · To what, where: fire, head, ashes
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 (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 | _ | 4 lighted | cc |
| 2 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lighted | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lighted | nsubj |
| 4 | lighted | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fire | det |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lighted | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 burnt | punct |
| 8 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lighted | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 head | det |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burnt | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 trunk | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 trunk | det |
| 13 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 head | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 scattered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 scattered | cc |
| 16 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 burnt | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ashes | det |
| 18 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 scattered | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 winds | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 winds | det |
| 21 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 scattered | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light | past | straightway | a fire | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | ||||
| 2 | burnt | past | the head and the trunk | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | scatter | past | the ashes | to the winds | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ash=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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