Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 3

So he built himself new barns, and filled them as full as they could hold.

Who acts: Moujik, barns · What happens: build, fill, hold · To what, where: Moujik, barns

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, barns), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 built	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 built	nsubj
3	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 built	obj
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 barns	amod
6	barns	barn	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 built	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 filled	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 filled	cc
9	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 built	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 filled	obj
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 full	advmod
12	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 filled	xcomp
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 hold	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hold	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 hold	aux
16	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 full	advcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	build	past	Moujik	Moujik		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary barn=Product
2	fill	past	Moujik not said here	barns = barn	full property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	hold	could	barns = barn			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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