Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 183
The Soldier had a good sleep, bought himself a frying-pan,[367] hid it under his cloak, and towards evening went to the merchant's house.
Who acts: Soldier, frying pan · What happens: have, buy, hide, go · To what, where: good sleep, SOLDIER, sleep, cloak, house
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Soldier, frying pan), 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 Soldier | det |
| 2 | Soldier | Soldier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sleep | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sleep | amod |
| 6 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bought | punct |
| 8 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 bought | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pan | det |
| 11 | frying | frying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pan | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 frying | punct |
| 13 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hid | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 367 | punct |
| 15 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 16 367 | punct |
| 16 | 367 | 367 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 pan | appos |
| 17 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 16 367 | punct |
| 18 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bought | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 hid | obj |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 22 cloak | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 22 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hid | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 went | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 went | cc |
| 25 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 26 evening | case |
| 26 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 went | obl |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 house | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 merchant | det |
| 30 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 house | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 merchant | case |
| 32 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 went | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Soldier | a good sleep | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Patient | ||||
| 2 | buy | past | SOLDIER | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hide | past | a frying pan | sleep | SOLDIER's cloak | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient under cloak=Location | |||
| 4 | go | past | the Soldier not said here | the merchant's house | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location |
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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