Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 16
The Pope drew the loaves out of his pocket and began quietly nibbling them at his seat.
Who acts: Pope · What happens: draw, begin, nibble · To what, where: loaves, pocket, seat
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pope), 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 Pope | det |
| 2 | Pope | Pope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 loaves | det |
| 5 | loaves | loaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drew | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 pocket | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 pocket | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 9 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obl | ||
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 began | cc |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 12 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 11 began | advmod |
| 13 | nibbling | nibble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 nibbling | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 seat | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 seat | nmod:poss |
| 17 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nibbling | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | the Pope | the loaves | Pope's pocket | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent loaf=Theme out pocket=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | begin | past | the Pope not said here | quietly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | nibble | gerund | the Pope not said here | loaves = loaf | Pope's seat | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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