Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 21
"They used to sell milk, and they put water into the milk.
Who acts: girls · What happens: use, sell, put · To what, where: milk, water
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (girls), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 used | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 used | nsubj |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 sell | mark |
| 5 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 used | xcomp |
| 6 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sell | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 put | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | nsubj |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 used | conj |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 milk | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 milk | det |
| 14 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use in a quote | past | girls = girl | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | sell in a quote | to-infinitive | girls = girl not said here | milk | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme | ||||
| 3 | put in a quote | past | girls = girl | water | the milk | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent water=Goal |
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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