Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 129
The old man of the story climbs up it in search of acorns, and reaches heaven.
Who acts: old man · What happens: climb up, reach, search · To what, where: variant, search, heaven, acorns
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), 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 | 7 climbs | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 story | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | nmod |
| 7 | climbs | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 climbs | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 search | case |
| 11 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 climbs | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 acorns | case |
| 13 | acorns | acorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 search | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reaches | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 reaches | cc |
| 16 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 climbs | conj |
| 17 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reaches | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 climbs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb up | present | the old man of the story | variant | search of acorns | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reach | present | the old man of the story not said here | heaven | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent heaven=Theme | ||||
| 3 | search | acorns | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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