Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 126
The barrel went its way, and the rich moujik found it, and stowed it away, grumbling the while:
Who acts: barrel, rich moujik · What happens: go, find, stow away, grumble · To what, where: way, barrel
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (barrel, rich moujik), 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 barrel | det |
| 2 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 way | nmod:poss |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 moujik | det |
| 9 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 moujik | amod |
| 10 | moujik | moujik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | nsubj |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stowed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stowed | cc |
| 15 | stowed | stow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stowed | obj |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 stowed | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 grumbling | punct |
| 19 | grumbling | grumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 stowed | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 while | det |
| 21 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grumbling | obj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the barrel | barrel's way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | the rich moujik | barrel | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 3 | stow away | past | the barrel not said here | barrel | away property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | grumble speech: other | gerund | the barrel not said here | while | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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