Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 31
The fool took two axes and got into a sledge, but without harnessing a horse to it.
Who acts: fool · What happens: take, get, harness · To what, where: two axes, sledge, horse
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), 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 | 2 fool | det |
| 2 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 axes | nummod |
| 5 | axes | ax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 got | cc |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 sledge | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sledge | det |
| 10 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 harnessing | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 harnessing | cc |
| 13 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 14 harnessing | mark |
| 14 | harnessing | harness | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 took | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 horse | det |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 harnessing | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 harnessing | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the fool | two axes | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ax=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | past | the fool not said here | a sledge | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into sledge=Destination | ||||
| 3 | harness | gerund | the fool not said here | a horse | horse | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient to it=Co-Patient |
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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