Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 156

They fastened it to a chain; for a whole year they kept it chained up.

Who acts: pieces, work · What happens: fasten, keep, chain up · To what, where: work

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pieces, work), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fastened	nsubj
2	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fastened	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 chain	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 chain	det
6	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fastened	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 kept	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 year	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 year	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 year	amod
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kept	obl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kept	nsubj
13	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fastened	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kept	obj
15	chained	chain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 kept	xcomp
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 chained	compound:prt
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fasten	past	pieces = piece	work		to a chain	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient to chain=Co-Patient
2	keep	past	pieces = piece	work	year		tree rules
3	chain up	participle	work not said here				vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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