Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 40
But it had nothing in it but bones, and those broken very small.
Who acts: sack · What happens: have, break · To what, where: nothing, stalk
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 (sack), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 had | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 had | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 nothing | nmod |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 bones | cc |
| 8 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 nothing | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 those | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 those | cc |
| 11 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 had | conj |
| 12 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 those | acl |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 small | advmod |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 broken | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | sack | nothing | stalk | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | |||
| 2 | break | participle | small property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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