Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 7
"Why, wherever did the Moujik get such a lot of grain?"
Who acts: Moujik · What happens: get · To what, where: lot
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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 get | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
| 4 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 get | advmod |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 get | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Moujik | det |
| 7 | Moujik | Moujik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 get | nsubj |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 lot | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lot | det |
| 11 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 grain | case |
| 13 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lot | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | past · do-support | the Moujik | such lot of grain | wherever property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lot=Stimulus |
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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