Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 1
The Moujik began to thresh: from every sheaf he got a peck of grain.
Who acts: Moujik · What happens: begin, thresh, get · To what, where: peck, sheaf
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 Moujik | det |
| 2 | Moujik | Moujik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 thresh | mark |
| 5 | thresh | thresh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 got | punct |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 sheaf | case |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 sheaf | det |
| 9 | sheaf | sheaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 got | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 got | nsubj |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 peck | det |
| 13 | peck | peck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 got | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 grain | case |
| 15 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 peck | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the Moujik | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | thresh | to-infinitive | the Moujik not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get | past | Moujik | a peck of grain | every sheaf | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent peck=Theme from sheaf=Source |
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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