Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 33
The moujik obeyed, and soon returned with the malt, which the old man ordered him to throw into his well.
Who acts: moujik, old man, malt · What happens: obey, return, order, throw · To what, where: malt, guest
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 (moujik, old man, malt), 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 moujik | det |
| 2 | moujik | moujik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 obeyed | nsubj |
| 3 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 returned | cc |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 returned | advmod |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 obeyed | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 malt | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 malt | det |
| 10 | malt | malt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ordered | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 ordered | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ordered | nsubj |
| 16 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 malt | acl:relcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ordered | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 throw | mark |
| 19 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 ordered | xcomp |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 well | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 well | nmod:poss |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 throw | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | past | the moujik | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | return | participle | the moujik not said here | with the malt; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | order | past | the old man | the malt | guest | tree rules | |||
| 4 | throw not said to happen | to-infinitive | the malt not said here | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer into well=Result |
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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