Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 90
A hen gobbled up the pea, but the bean grew up as high as the table.
Who acts: hen · What happens: gobble up, grow up · 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 (hen), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hen | det |
| 2 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | gobbled | gobble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 hen | acl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 gobbled | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pea | det |
| 6 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gobbled | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 grew | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 grew | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bean | det |
| 10 | bean | bean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grew | nsubj |
| 11 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 grew | compound:prt |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 high | advmod |
| 14 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grew | xcomp |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 table | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 table | det |
| 17 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 high | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gobble up | participle | a hen not said here | the pea | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pea=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow up | past | a hen | 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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