Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 63
The Lord took the soil, sprinkled it around, and the Earth appeared, all perfectly flat.
Who acts: Lord, Earth · What happens: take, sprinkle around, appear · To what, where: soil
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 (Lord, Earth), 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 Lord | det |
| 2 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 soil | det |
| 5 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sprinkled | punct |
| 7 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sprinkled | obj |
| 9 | around | around | ADV | _ | 7 sprinkled | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 appeared | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 appeared | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Earth | det |
| 13 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 appeared | nsubj |
| 14 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 flat | punct |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 flat | nsubj |
| 17 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 18 flat | advmod |
| 18 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 appeared | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Lord | the soil | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sprinkle around | past | the Lord not said here | soil | around property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | appear | past | the Earth | flat property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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