Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 22
Pots of money didst thou bury but thou couldst not hide them.
Who acts: Pots, thou · What happens: do, bury, not hide · To what, where: thou, pots
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 (Pots, thou), 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 | Pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 didst | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 money | case |
| 3 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pots | nmod |
| 4 | didst | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 didst | obj |
| 6 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 didst | xcomp |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 hide | cc |
| 8 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 hide | nsubj |
| 9 | couldst | could | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 11 hide | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 hide | advmod |
| 11 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 bury | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hide | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 didst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Pots of money | thou | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bury | infinitive | Pots of money not said here | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not hide | could | thou | pots = pot | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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