Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 139
Then our Pope collected all the church keys, looked at the picture of Nicholas, thumped him, out of spite, over the shoulders with the keys, and went forth from his parish as his eyes led him.
Who acts: Pope, eyes · What happens: collect, look, thump, go, lead · To what, where: church keys, Pope, spite, parish
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 (Pope, eyes), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 collected | advmod |
| 2 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 Pope | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Pope | Pope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 collected | nsubj |
| 4 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 keys | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 keys | det |
| 7 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keys | compound |
| 8 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 collected | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 collected | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 picture | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 picture | det |
| 13 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Nicholas | case |
| 15 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 picture | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thumped | punct |
| 17 | thumped | thump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 collected | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 thumped | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 spite | punct |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 spite | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 spite | case |
| 22 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thumped | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 shoulders | punct |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 shoulders | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 shoulders | det |
| 26 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 thumped | obl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 keys | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 keys | det |
| 29 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 shoulders | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 went | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 went | cc |
| 32 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 collected | conj |
| 33 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 32 went | advmod |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 parish | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 parish | nmod:poss |
| 36 | parish | parish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 went | obl |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 led | mark |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 39 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 led | nsubj |
| 40 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 went | advcl |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 led | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 collected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | past | our Pope | all church keys | then | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | past | our Pope not said here | at the picture of Nicholas | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at picture=Theme | ||||
| 3 | thump | past | our Pope not said here | Pope | spite | over the shoulders with the keys | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient out spite=Location | ||
| 4 | go | past | our Pope not said here | Pope's parish | forth property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from parish=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | lead | past | Pope's eyes | Pope | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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