Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 65
This he immediately took to the nearest churchyard, placed it on the top of a tomb, and began to pound away at it with his millstone.
Who acts: This · What happens: take, place, begin away · To what, where: churchyard, top, pound
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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 took | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 3 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 churchyard | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 churchyard | det |
| 7 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 churchyard | amod |
| 8 | churchyard | churchyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 placed | punct |
| 10 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 placed | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 top | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 top | det |
| 14 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 placed | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 tomb | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tomb | det |
| 17 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 top | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 began | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 began | cc |
| 20 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 pound | mark |
| 22 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 began | obj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 began | advmod |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 began | obl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 millstone | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 millstone | nmod:poss |
| 28 | millstone | millstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 began | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | This | to the nearest churchyard result; immediately property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to churchyard=Result | ||||
| 2 | place | past | This not said here | churchyard | the top of a tomb | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on top=Destination | |||
| 3 | begin away | past | This not said here | pound | pound | with Ivan's millstone; away property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent pound=Eventuality with millstone=Subeventuality |
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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