Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 80
When they were done enough, he took them out and put them together again properly--bone to bone, joint to joint, vein to vein.
Who acts: soldier, bone · What happens: do, take out, put, joint, vein · To what, where: devils
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, bone), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 done | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux:pass |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 took | advcl |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 4 done | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 took | obj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 took | compound:prt |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 put | cc |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 took | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 put | obj |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 12 put | advmod |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 put | advmod |
| 16 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 12 put | advmod |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 bone | punct |
| 18 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 joint | nsubj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 bone | case |
| 20 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bone | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 joint | punct |
| 22 | joint | joint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 joint | nsubj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 joint | case |
| 24 | joint | joint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 took | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 vein | punct |
| 26 | vein | vein | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 joint | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 vein | mark |
| 28 | vein | vein | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 vein | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | devils = devil | enough property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | take out | past | soldier | devils = devil | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | soldier not said here | devils = devil | again | properly, together property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal | ||
| 4 | joint | infinitive | bone to bone | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | vein | infinitive | bone to bone not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | vein | to-infinitive | bone to bone not said here | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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