Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 33
Then they unsealed it and opened it and scattered the contents--and it was full of nothing but glass!
Who acts: prayers, coffer · What happens: unseal, open, scatter, be · To what, where: coffer, contents
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prayers, coffer), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 unsealed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 unsealed | nsubj |
| 3 | unsealed | unseal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 unsealed | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 opened | cc |
| 6 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 unsealed | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 opened | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 scattered | cc |
| 9 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 opened | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 contents | det |
| 11 | contents | contents | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 9 scattered | obj |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 full | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 full | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 full | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 full | cop |
| 16 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 unsealed | parataxis |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 nothing | case |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 full | obl |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 glass | cc |
| 20 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 nothing | conj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 unsealed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unseal | past | prayers = prayer | coffer | then | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 2 | open | past | prayers = prayer not said here | coffer | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | scatter | past | prayers = prayer not said here | the contents | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent contents=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | coffer | of nothing; full property | tree rules |
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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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