Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 21
They gave themselves a shake, and set out again on their journey.
Who acts: loaves · What happens: give, set out, journey · To what, where: loaves, journey
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 (loaves), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 gave | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 shake | det |
| 5 | shake | shake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 set | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 set | cc |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 gave | advcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 set | compound:prt |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 set | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 journey | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 journey | nmod:poss |
| 13 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | loaves = loaf | loaves = loaf | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient shake=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set out | infinitive | loaves = loaf not said here | loaves's journey | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | journey | loaves = loaf | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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