Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 40
"One of you axes fell the trees, while the other cuts them up into billets."
Who acts: other · What happens: fall, cut up · To what, where: One, trees, billets
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 (other), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 One | punct |
| 2 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 you | case |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 One | nmod |
| 5 | axes | ax | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fell | aux:pass |
| 6 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trees | det |
| 8 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fell | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cuts | punct |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 cuts | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 other | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cuts | nsubj |
| 13 | cuts | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fell | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cuts | obj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 cuts | compound:prt |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 billets | case |
| 17 | billets | billet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cuts | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fell | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall in a quote | present · passive | One of you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cut up in a quote | present | the other | trees = tree | billets | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent they=Material into billet=Product |
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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