Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 131
The mill grinds pies and pancakes, and the old man and his wife live in plenty.
Who acts: mill, old man · What happens: grind, live · To what, where: pies, plenty
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 (mill, 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 | 2 mill | det |
| 2 | mill | mill | NOUN | _ | 3 grinds | nsubj |
| 3 | grinds | grind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | pies | pie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grinds | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 pancakes | cc |
| 6 | pancakes | pancake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pies | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 live | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 live | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 live | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wife | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 man | conj |
| 15 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 grinds | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 plenty | case |
| 17 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 live | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grinds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grind | present | the mill | pies and pancakes | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pie=Patient | ||||
| 2 | live | present | the old man and man's wife | plenty | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in plenty=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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