Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 74
Katoma went to the spot indicated by the Princess, seized the pillar in his arms, brought it into the palace kitchen, and broke it into little pieces; but four of the iron chips he put into his pocket, saying--
Who acts: Katoma · What happens: go, indicate, seize, bring, break, put · To what, where: four, spot, pillar, arms, palace kitchen, little pieces · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Katoma), 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 | Katoma | Katoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 spot | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 spot | det |
| 5 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | indicated | indicate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 spot | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Princess | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Princess | det |
| 9 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 indicated | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seized | punct |
| 11 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pillar | det |
| 13 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seized | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 arms | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 arms | nmod:poss |
| 16 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 seized | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brought | punct |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seized | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 brought | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 kitchen | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 kitchen | det |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kitchen | compound |
| 23 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brought | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 broke | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 broke | cc |
| 26 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 brought | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 broke | obj |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 pieces | case |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 pieces | amod |
| 30 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 broke | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 four | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 four | cc |
| 33 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 went | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 chips | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 chips | det |
| 36 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 chips | compound |
| 37 | chips | chip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 four | nmod |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 put | nsubj |
| 39 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 chips | acl:relcl |
| 40 | into | into | ADP | _ | 42 pocket | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 42 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 put | obl | ||
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 saying | punct |
| 44 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 went | parataxis |
| 45 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Katoma | four of the iron chips | the spot | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to spot=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | indicate | participle | the spot not said here | by the Princess | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | seize | past | the pillar | Katoma's arms | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pillar=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring | past | pillar | the palace kitchen | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into kitchen=Destination | ||||
| 5 | break | past | pillar | into little pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into piece=Result | ||||
| 6 | put | past | Katoma | the iron chips not said here | Katoma's pocket | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent chip=Goal | |||
| 7 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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