Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 21
In an instant the devils brought the candle-end, piled up a lot of wood right under the stove-pipe, and set it alight.
Who acts: devils · What happens: bring, pile up, set · To what, where: candle end, instant, lot, stove pipe, end
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (devils), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 instant | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 instant | det |
| 3 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 devils | det |
| 5 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 brought | nsubj |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 end | det |
| 8 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 end | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 candle | punct |
| 10 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 piled | punct |
| 12 | piled | pile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 brought | parataxis |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 piled | compound:prt |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 lot | det |
| 15 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 piled | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 wood | case |
| 17 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lot | nmod |
| 18 | right | right | ADV | _ | 23 pipe | advmod |
| 19 | under | under | ADP | _ | 23 pipe | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 pipe | det |
| 21 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pipe | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 stove | punct |
| 23 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 piled | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 set | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 set | cc |
| 26 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 piled | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 set | obj |
| 28 | alight | alight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 set | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the devils | the candle end | a instant | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent end=Theme | |||
| 2 | pile up | participle | a lot of wood | the stove pipe | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lot=Theme under pipe=Destination | ||||
| 3 | set | infinitive | end | alight property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result |
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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