Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 39
The moujik told him the whole story, whereupon he straightway commanded his servants to pour all his best malt into his well.
Who acts: moujik, last · What happens: tell, command, pour · To what, where: whole story, last, servants, best malt · Speech: someone speaks here
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, last), 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 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 story | amod |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 commanded | punct |
| 9 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 commanded | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 commanded | nsubj |
| 11 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 commanded | nsubj |
| 12 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 servants | nmod:poss |
| 14 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 commanded | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 pour | mark |
| 16 | pour | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 commanded | advcl |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 malt | det:predet |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 malt | nmod:poss |
| 19 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 malt | amod |
| 20 | malt | malt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pour | obj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 well | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 well | nmod:poss |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 pour | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the moujik | the whole story | last | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic | |||
| 2 | command | past | last | last's servants | whereupon property | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent servant=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | pour | to-infinitive | last not said here | last's best malt | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent malt=Theme into well=Destination |
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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