Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 81
Well, they built a bridge five versts long, and this piece of work cleared out both the pots.
Who acts: versts, piece · What happens: build, clear out · To what, where: bridge, 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 (versts, piece), 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 built | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 built | nsubj |
| 4 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bridge | det |
| 6 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 built | obj |
| 7 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 versts | nummod |
| 8 | versts | verst | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 long | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bridge | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cleared | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cleared | cc |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 piece | det |
| 13 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cleared | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 work | case |
| 15 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 piece | nmod |
| 16 | cleared | clear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 built | parataxis |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 cleared | compound:prt |
| 18 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 20 pots | cc:preconj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pots | det |
| 20 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cleared | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | versts = verst | a bridge | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bridge=Product | ||||
| 2 | clear out | participle | this piece of work | the pots | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pot=Source |
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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