Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 131
When Satan heard what had taken place, he ordered that the peasant's crust should be restored.
Who acts: Satan · What happens: hear, take, order, restore · To what, where: place, crust · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Satan), 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 | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | Satan | Satan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ordered | advcl |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | aux |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 heard | ccomp |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ordered | nsubj |
| 10 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 restored | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 peasant | det |
| 13 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 crust | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 peasant | case |
| 15 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 restored | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 restored | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 restored | aux:pass |
| 18 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 ordered | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Satan | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | take | past · perfect · passive | place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme place=Destination | |||||
| 3 | order | past | Satan | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | restore | should · passive | the peasant's crust | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=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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