Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 56
The fiends chose one of their number, and sent him with the Fiddler.
Who acts: fiends · What happens: choose, send · To what, where: one, word
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 (fiends), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fiends | det |
| 2 | fiends | fiend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 chose | nsubj |
| 3 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 chose | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 number | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 number | nmod:poss |
| 7 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 one | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sent | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sent | cc |
| 10 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 chose | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sent | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 Fiddler | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Fiddler | det |
| 14 | Fiddler | Fiddler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sent | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past | the fiends | one of fiends's number | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | past | the fiends not said here | word | with the Fiddler | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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