Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 91
They moved the table, and the bean grew still higher.
Who acts: beans, bean · What happens: move, grow · To what, where: table
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 (beans, bean), 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 moved | nsubj |
| 2 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 table | det |
| 4 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 moved | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 grew | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 grew | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bean | det |
| 8 | bean | bean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grew | nsubj |
| 9 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 moved | conj |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 higher | advmod |
| 11 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 grew | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | beans = bean | the table | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent table=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | the bean | 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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