Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 41
We see the wide sweep of the level corn-land, the gloom of the interminable forest, the gleam of the slowly winding river.
Who acts: We · What happens: see, wind · To what, where: wide sweep
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, 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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sweep | det |
| 4 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sweep | amod |
| 5 | sweep | sweep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 see | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 land | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 land | det |
| 8 | level | level | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 land | amod |
| 9 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 land | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 corn | punct |
| 11 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sweep | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gloom | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 gloom | det |
| 14 | gloom | gloom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sweep | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 forest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 forest | det |
| 17 | interminable | interminable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 forest | amod |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gloom | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gleam | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 gleam | det |
| 21 | gleam | gleam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sweep | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 river | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 river | det |
| 24 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 25 winding | advmod |
| 25 | winding | wind | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 river | amod |
| 26 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gleam | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | We | the wide sweep of the level corn land and the gloom of the interminable forest and the gleam of the winding river | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sweep=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | wind | gerund | slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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