Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 125
Thereupon he told the whole story of what had taken place, and he brought out and showed the arm which had been cut off.
Who acts: Straightway · What happens: tell, take, bring out, show, cut off · To what, where: whole story, place, arm · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 3 told | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 story | amod |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 what | case |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 story | nmod |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 taken | aux |
| 10 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taken | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 brought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 brought | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 brought | nsubj |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 brought | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 showed | cc |
| 18 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 brought | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 arm | det |
| 20 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 showed | obj |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 cut | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 cut | aux:pass |
| 24 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 arm | acl:relcl |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 cut | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Straightway | the whole story | thereupon property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | |||
| 2 | take | past · perfect | place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bring out | past | Straightway | out property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | show | past | Straightway not said here | the arm | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent arm=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | cut off | past · perfect · passive | the arm | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
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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