Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 42
We pass along the single street of the village, and glance at its wooden barn-like huts,[14] so different from the ideal English cottage with its windows set deep in ivy and its porch smiling with roses.
Who acts: We, porch · What happens: pass, set, smile · To what, where: single street, windows, ivy
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, porch), 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 pass | nsubj |
| 2 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | along | along | ADP | _ | 6 street | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 street | det |
| 5 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 street | amod |
| 6 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pass | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 village | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 village | det |
| 9 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 street | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 glance | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 glance | cc |
| 12 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pass | parataxis |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 huts | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 huts | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 huts | amod |
| 16 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 like | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 barn | punct |
| 18 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 huts | amod |
| 19 | huts | hut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 glance | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 14 | punct |
| 21 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 22 14 | punct |
| 22 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 glance | appos |
| 23 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 22 14 | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 different | advmod |
| 25 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 glance | parataxis |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 cottage | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 cottage | det |
| 28 | ideal | ideal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 cottage | amod |
| 29 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 cottage | amod |
| 30 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 different | obl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 windows | case |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 windows | nmod:poss |
| 33 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 cottage | nmod |
| 34 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 windows | acl |
| 35 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 34 set | advmod |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 ivy | case |
| 37 | ivy | ivy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 set | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 porch | cc |
| 39 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 porch | nmod:poss |
| 40 | porch | porch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 ivy | conj |
| 41 | smiling | smile | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 porch | acl |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 roses | case |
| 43 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 smiling | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | present | We | the single street of the village | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme along street=Location | ||||
| 2 | set | participle | cottage's windows not said here | ivy and cottage's porch | deep property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in ivy=Destination | |||
| 3 | smile | gerund | cottage's porch not said here | with roses | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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