Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 22
The blind man took a cart, seated the cripple in it, and rattled it into the town, straight into the rich merchant's courtyard.
Who acts: blind man · What happens: take, seat, rattle · To what, where: cart, cripple, town
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 (blind man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cart | det |
| 6 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seated | punct |
| 8 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cripple | det |
| 10 | cripple | cripple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seated | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 seated | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rattled | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rattled | cc |
| 15 | rattled | rattle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 rattled | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 town | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 town | det |
| 19 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rattled | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 courtyard | punct |
| 21 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 27 courtyard | advmod |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 courtyard | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 merchant | det |
| 24 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 merchant | amod |
| 25 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 courtyard | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 merchant | case |
| 27 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rattled | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the blind man | a cart | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seat | past | the blind man not said here | the cripple | cart | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cripple=Value in it=Location | |||
| 3 | rattle | past | the blind man not said here | cart | the town | into the rich merchant's courtyard | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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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