Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 92
And they took to feeding the poor and distributing alms.
Who acts: children · What happens: take, feed, distribute · To what, where: poor, alms
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 (children), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 took | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 feeding | mark |
| 5 | feeding | feed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 took | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 poor | det |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feeding | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 distributing | cc |
| 9 | distributing | distribute | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 feeding | conj |
| 10 | alms | alm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 distributing | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | children = child | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | feed | gerund | children = child not said here | the poor | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poor=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | distribute | gerund | children = child not said here | alms | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent alm=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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