Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 107
When he had ploughed up half of it, he unharnessed his horse and turned it out to graze.
Who acts: horse · What happens: plough up, unharness, turn out, graze · To what, where: half, horse
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse), 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 ploughed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ploughed | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ploughed | aux |
| 4 | ploughed | plough | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 unharnessed | advcl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 ploughed | compound:prt |
| 6 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 4 ploughed | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 half | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ploughed | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 unharnessed | nsubj |
| 11 | unharnessed | unharness | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 horse | nmod:poss |
| 13 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 unharnessed | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 turned | cc |
| 15 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 unharnessed | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 turned | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 turned | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 graze | mark |
| 19 | graze | graze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 turned | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 unharnessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plough up | past · perfect | horse | half of half | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent half=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | unharness | past | horse | horse's horse | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | turn out | past | horse not said here | half | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | graze | to-infinitive | horse not said here | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=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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