Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 52
The old man heated the bath-room, carried in what was wanted, and stood outside at the door.
Who acts: old man · What happens: heat, carry, want, stand · To what, where: bath room, door
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 heated | nsubj |
| 4 | heated | heat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 room | det |
| 6 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 room | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 bath | punct |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heated | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 carried | punct |
| 10 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 room | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 what | case |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 carried | obl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wanted | aux:pass |
| 14 | wanted | want | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 what | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stood | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stood | cc |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heated | conj |
| 18 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 17 stood | advmod |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 door | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 door | det |
| 21 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heat | past | the old man | the bath room | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent room=Patient | ||||
| 2 | carry | participle | the bath room not said here | the bath room | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in what=Location | ||||
| 3 | want | past · passive | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF» | ||||||
| 4 | stand | past | the old man not said here | the door | outside property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=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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