Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 14

I had much money: I gave none to the poor, two pots of it did I bury underground.

Who acts: I, two pots · What happens: have, give, bury · To what, where: much money, none, poor

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, two pots), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 money	amod
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 gave	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 gave	nsubj
7	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
8	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	7 gave	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 poor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 poor	det
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gave	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pots	punct
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 pots	nummod
14	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 bury	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pots	nmod
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 bury	aux
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 bury	nsubj
19	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 gave	parataxis
20	underground	underground	ADV	_	19 bury	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	I	much money			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
2	give	past	I	none	the poor		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent none=Theme to poor=Recipient
3	bury	past · do-support	two pots of money			underground property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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