Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 73

Well, they dug up both the pots, and began to distribute the money among the poor.

Who acts: fiends · What happens: dig up, begin, distribute · To what, where: pots, money

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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 dug	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dug	nsubj
4	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 dug	compound:prt
6	both	both	CCONJ	_	8 pots	cc:preconj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pots	det
8	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dug	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 began	cc
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dug	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 distribute	mark
13	distribute	distribute	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 money	det
15	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 distribute	obj
16	among	among	ADP	_	18 poor	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 poor	det
18	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 distribute	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dug	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dig up	past	fiends = fiend	the pots		vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pot=Theme
2	begin	past	fiends = fiend not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	distribute	to-infinitive	fiends = fiend not said here	the money	among the poor	vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Theme among poor=Recipient

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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