Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 16
Well, they lived some time in the forest in that way, and caught hares, foxes, and bears for their dinner.
Who acts: feet · What happens: live, catch · To what, where: bears, hares
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feet), 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 lived | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 forest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 forest | det |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 time | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 way | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 way | det |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 forest | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 caught | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 caught | cc |
| 15 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lived | conj |
| 16 | hares | hare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 caught | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 foxes | punct |
| 18 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hares | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bears | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bears | cc |
| 21 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lived | obl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 dinner | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 24 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bears | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | feet = foot | bears for feet's dinner | time | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | catch | past | feet = foot not said here | hares and foxes | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=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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