Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 84

They watered it regularly, and the pea set to work and grew higher than the izba.

Who acts: people, pea · What happens: water, set, work, grow · To what, where: pea

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 (people, pea), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 watered	nsubj
2	watered	water	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 watered	obj
4	regularly	regularly	ADV	_	2 watered	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 set	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 set	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pea	det
8	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 set	nsubj
9	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 watered	parataxis
10	to	to	PART	_	11 work	mark
11	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 set	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 grew	cc
13	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 set	conj
14	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 grew	xcomp
15	than	than	ADP	_	17 izba	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 izba	det
17	izba	izba	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 higher	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 watered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	water	past	people	pea	regularly property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination
2	set	past	the pea			tree rules
3	work	to-infinitive	the pea not said here			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	grow	past	the pea not said here		high property	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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