Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 45
The old man used only a thumb and two fingers, but the Pope seized whole handfuls, and kept on stowing them away in his wallet--shovelling them into it, and then lifting it a bit to see if he was strong enough to carry it.
Who acts: old man, man · What happens: use, seize, keep, stow away, shovell, lift · To what, where: old man, whole handfuls, handfuls, wallet
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 (old man, man), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seized | nsubj |
| 4 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 man | acl |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 thumb | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 thumb | det |
| 7 | thumb | thumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 used | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fingers | cc |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 fingers | nummod |
| 10 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thumb | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seized | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 seized | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Pope | det |
| 14 | Pope | Pope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 seized | nsubj |
| 15 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 handfuls | amod |
| 17 | handfuls | handful | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 seized | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 kept | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 kept | cc |
| 20 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 seized | parataxis |
| 21 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 22 stowing | mark |
| 22 | stowing | stow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 kept | advcl |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stowing | obj |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 stowing | advmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 wallet | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 wallet | nmod:poss |
| 27 | wallet | wallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stowing | obl |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 29 shovelling | punct |
| 29 | shovelling | shovell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 stowing | conj |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 shovelling | obj |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 shovelling | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 lifting | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 lifting | cc |
| 35 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 lifting | advmod |
| 36 | lifting | lift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 stowing | conj |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 lifting | obj |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 bit | det |
| 39 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lifting | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 see | mark |
| 41 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 lifting | advcl |
| 42 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 45 strong | mark |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 strong | nsubj |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 strong | cop |
| 45 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 see | ccomp |
| 46 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 45 strong | advmod |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 carry | mark |
| 48 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 strong | advcl |
| 49 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 carry | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | the old man not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | seize | past | the old man | whole handfuls | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep | participle | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | stow away | gerund | handfuls = handful | Pope's wallet | away property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in wallet=Destination | |||
| 5 | shovell | gerund | handfuls = handful | wallet | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | lift | gerund | wallet | then | a bit obl:unmarked | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 7 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 8 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | man | enough, strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | carry | to-infinitive | man not said here | wallet | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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