Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 48
Into this they also dipped a dry stick, and immediately it burst into flower.
Who acts: waters, stick · What happens: dip, burst · To what, where: dry stick, this, flower
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waters, stick), 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 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 dipped | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dipped | nsubj |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 dipped | advmod |
| 5 | dipped | dip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stick | det |
| 7 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stick | amod |
| 8 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dipped | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 burst | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 burst | cc |
| 11 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 13 burst | advmod |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 burst | nsubj |
| 13 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dipped | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 flower | case |
| 15 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 burst | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dip | past | waters = water | a dry stick | this | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stick=Theme into this=Destination | |||
| 2 | burst | past | stick | flower | immediately property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: 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: «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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