Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 64
He had them married, and then ordered them both to be placed in a tub, and the tub to be tarred over and thrown into the water; all which was done.
Who acts: father, boots · What happens: have, marry, order, place, tar over, throw · To what, where: boots, tub, water, all
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 (father, boots), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | obj |
| 4 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ordered | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ordered | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 ordered | advmod |
| 8 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ordered | obj |
| 10 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 them | appos |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 placed | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 placed | aux:pass |
| 13 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ordered | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 tub | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tub | det |
| 16 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 placed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tub | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 tub | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tub | det |
| 20 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 tarred | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 tarred | aux:pass |
| 23 | tarred | tar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 tub | acl |
| 24 | over | over | ADV | _ | 23 tarred | advmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 thrown | cc |
| 26 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 tarred | conj |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 water | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 water | det |
| 29 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 thrown | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 done | punct |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 done | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 all | nmod |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 done | aux:pass |
| 34 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | father | boots = boot | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | marry | participle | boots = boot not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | order | past | boots = boot | then | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | place | to-infinitive · passive | a tub | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in tub=Destination | |||||
| 5 | tar over | to-infinitive · passive | father not said here | over property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination» | ||||
| 6 | throw | participle | father not said here | into the water result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer into water=Result | ||||
| 7 | do | past · passive | all | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: 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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