Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 15
As he scooped it up, a pike happened to get into his pail.
Who acts: FOOL, pike · What happens: scoop up, happen, get · To what, where: water, pail
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 (FOOL, pike), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 scooped | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 scooped | nsubj |
| 3 | scooped | scoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 scooped | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 scooped | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 happened | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pike | det |
| 8 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 happened | nsubj |
| 9 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scooped | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 get | mark |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 happened | xcomp |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 pail | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 pail | nmod:poss |
| 14 | pail | pail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 scooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scoop up | past | FOOL | water | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | happen | past | a pike | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | a pike not said here | FOOL's pail | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into pail=Destination |
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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