Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 5
At length there arrived the season of its final change, when, transferred from the dusk of the peasant's hut into the full light of the outer day, and freed from the unbecoming garments by which it had been disfigured, it was recognized as the scion of a family so truly royal that some of its members deduce their origin from the olden gods themselves.
Who acts: unbecoming garments, some, length · What happens: arrive, transfer, free, disfigure, recognize, deduce · To what, where: length, full light, unbecoming garments, charity, origin, outer day
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 (unbecoming garments, some, length), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | obl |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 arrived | advmod |
| 4 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 season | det |
| 6 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 change | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 change | nmod:poss |
| 9 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 change | amod |
| 10 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 season | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 transferred | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 transferred | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 transferred | punct |
| 14 | transferred | transfer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 arrived | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 dusk | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dusk | det |
| 17 | dusk | dusk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 transferred | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 hut | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 peasant | det |
| 20 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hut | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 peasant | case |
| 22 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dusk | nmod |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 light | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 light | det |
| 25 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 light | amod |
| 26 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 transferred | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 day | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 day | det |
| 29 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 day | amod |
| 30 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 light | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 freed | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 freed | cc |
| 33 | freed | free | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arrived | conj |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 garments | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 garments | det |
| 36 | unbecoming | unbecoming | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 garments | amod |
| 37 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 freed | obl |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 39 which | case |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 disfigured | obl |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 disfigured | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 disfigured | aux |
| 42 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 43 disfigured | aux:pass |
| 43 | disfigured | disfigure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 garments | acl:relcl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 recognized | punct |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 recognized | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 recognized | aux:pass |
| 47 | recognized | recognize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 freed | advcl |
| 48 | as | as | ADP | _ | 50 scion | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 scion | det |
| 50 | scion | scion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 recognized | obl |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 family | case |
| 52 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 family | det |
| 53 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 scion | nmod |
| 54 | so | so | ADV | _ | 56 royal | advmod |
| 55 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 56 royal | advmod |
| 56 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 recognized | advcl |
| 57 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 62 deduce | mark |
| 58 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 62 deduce | nsubj |
| 59 | of | of | ADP | _ | 61 members | case |
| 60 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 61 members | nmod:poss |
| 61 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 58 some | nmod |
| 62 | deduce | deduce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 56 royal | advcl |
| 63 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 64 origin | nmod:poss |
| 64 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 deduce | obj |
| 65 | from | from | ADP | _ | 68 gods | case |
| 66 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 68 gods | det |
| 67 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 68 gods | amod |
| 68 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 62 deduce | obl |
| 69 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 68 gods | nmod:unmarked |
| 70 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | length; there | season | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | transfer | participle | the full light of the outer day | dusk | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | free | past | the unbecoming garments | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 4 | disfigure | past · perfect · passive | the unbecoming garments | charity | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | recognize | past · passive | charity | as the scion of a family | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as scion=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | deduce | present | some | members's origin | from the olden gods gods | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent origin=Theme from god=Source | |||
| 7 | change | length | nom change «event intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | light | the outer day | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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