Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 41, sentence 241
Shovels are used to insert loaves and pots deep into the oven.
What happens: use, insert · To what, where: Shovels, loaves, oven
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Shovels | shovel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 used | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 used | aux:pass |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 insert | mark |
| 5 | insert | insert | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 used | xcomp |
| 6 | loaves | loaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 insert | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pots | cc |
| 8 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 loaves | conj |
| 9 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 12 oven | advmod |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 oven | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 oven | det |
| 12 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 insert | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · passive | Shovels | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | insert | to-infinitive | loaves and pots | the oven | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loaf=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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