Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 25, sentence 143
So he took and closed it up on the top with stakes, and strewed it over with straw.
Who acts: angel · What happens: take, close up, strew over · To what, where: contrivance, top
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (angel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 closed | cc |
| 5 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 closed | obj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 closed | compound:prt |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 top | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 top | det |
| 10 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 closed | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 stakes | case |
| 12 | stakes | stake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 top | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 strewed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 strewed | cc |
| 15 | strewed | strew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 strewed | obj |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 strewed | compound:prt |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 straw | case |
| 19 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 strewed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | angel | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | close up | past | angel not said here | contrivance | the top with stakes | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | strew over | past | angel not said here | contrivance | with straw | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with straw=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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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