Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 130
There he finds a hand-mill and a cock with a golden comb, both of which he carries off.
Who acts: man · What happens: find, carry off · To what, where: hand mill
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 (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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 finds | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 finds | nsubj |
| 3 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 mill | det |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mill | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 hand | punct |
| 7 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 finds | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cock | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cock | det |
| 10 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mill | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 comb | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 comb | det |
| 13 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 comb | amod |
| 14 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 finds | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 carries | punct |
| 16 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 which | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 carries | nsubj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 carries | nsubj |
| 20 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 finds | conj |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 carries | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 finds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | man | a hand mill and a cock | there | with a golden comb | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mill=Topic | ||
| 2 | carry off | present | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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