Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 9
Why, every one of his sheaves gave him a peck of grain.
Who acts: one · What happens: give · To what, where: peck, Moujik
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 (one), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 gave | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sheaves | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sheaves | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sheaves | sheaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | iobj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 peck | det |
| 11 | peck | peck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 grain | case |
| 13 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 peck | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | every one of Moujik's sheaves | a peck of grain | Moujik | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient peck=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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