Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 15
The cabbage went on growing again; grew, grew right up to the ceiling.
Who acts: cabbage · What happens: go, grow
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 (cabbage), 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 cabbage | det |
| 2 | cabbage | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 5 growing | mark |
| 5 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 growing | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 grew | punct |
| 8 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 grew | punct |
| 10 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 grew | conj |
| 11 | right | right | ADV | _ | 12 up | advmod |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 ceiling | case |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 ceiling | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ceiling | det |
| 15 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grew | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the cabbage | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | grow | gerund | the cabbage not said here | again | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | the cabbage not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | grow | past | the cabbage not said here | up the ceiling | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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