Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 12

The old man planted a cabbage-head in the cellar under the floor of his cottage; the old woman planted one in the ash-hole.

Who acts: old man, old woman · What happens: plant · To what, where: cabbage head, cellar, one, ash hole

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, old woman), 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	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 planted	nsubj
4	planted	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 head	det
6	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 head	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 cabbage	punct
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 planted	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 cellar	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cellar	det
11	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 planted	obl
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 floor	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 floor	det
14	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 planted	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 cottage	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 cottage	nmod:poss
17	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 floor	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 planted	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 woman	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 woman	amod
21	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 planted	nsubj
22	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 planted	parataxis
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 planted	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	28 hole	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hole	det
26	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hole	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 ash	punct
28	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 one	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 planted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plant	past	the old man	a cabbage head		the cellar		under the floor of man's cottage	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in cellar=Destination
2	plant	participle	the old woman	one		the ash hole			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme in hole=Destination

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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