Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 39
The old man slid down the cabbage-stalk and picked up the sack.
Who acts: old man · What happens: slide down, pick up · To what, where: cabbage stalk, sack
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 | 4 slid | nsubj |
| 4 | slid | slide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 slid | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stalk | det |
| 7 | cabbage | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stalk | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 cabbage | punct |
| 9 | stalk | stalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slid | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 picked | cc |
| 11 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 stalk | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 picked | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sack | det |
| 14 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 picked | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 slid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slide down | past | the old man | the cabbage stalk | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stalk=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pick up | participle | the old man not said here | the sack | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Topic |
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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