Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 1, sentence 90
So they dug a ditch right under the gables, and put their children inside it, and gave them provision of bread and water.
Who acts: peasants, bread · What happens: dig, put, give, provide · To what, where: ditch, gables, children, provision, peasants
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasants, bread), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 dug | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dug | nsubj |
| 3 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ditch | det |
| 5 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dug | obj |
| 6 | right | right | ADV | _ | 3 dug | advmod |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 gables | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gables | det |
| 9 | gables | gable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dug | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 put | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 put | cc |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dug | conj |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 children | nmod:poss |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 put | obj |
| 15 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 put | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gave | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gave | cc |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dug | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | iobj |
| 21 | provision | provision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 bread | case |
| 23 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 provision | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 water | cc |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 provision | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dug | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | past | peasants = peasant | a ditch | the gables | right property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ditch=Theme under gable=Location | ||
| 2 | put | infinitive | peasants = peasant not said here | peasants's children | ditch | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme inside it=Destination | |||
| 3 | give | past | peasants = peasant not said here | provision of bread and water | peasants = peasant | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient provision=Theme | |||
| 4 | provide | bread | nom provision «communication intransitive»: of=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: «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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