Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 51
There they lay on the ground, strewed about like so many sheaves of corn.
Who acts: people · What happens: lay, strew · To what, where: ground
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 (people), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 lay | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 ground | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ground | det |
| 6 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 strewed | punct |
| 8 | strewed | strew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 lay | conj |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 strewed | advmod |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 sheaves | case |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 many | advmod |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sheaves | amod |
| 13 | sheaves | sheaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 strewed | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 corn | case |
| 15 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sheaves | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | people | the ground; there | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on ground=Destination | ||||
| 2 | strew | participle | people not said here | like many sheaves of corn; about property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=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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