Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 50

Sometimes we see the better class of homestead, surrounded by its fence through which we pass between the often-mentioned gates.

Who acts: we · What happens: see, surround, pass, mention · To what, where: better class, fence

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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 see	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 class	det
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 class	amod
6	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 homestead	case
8	homestead	homestead	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 class	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 surrounded	punct
10	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 class	acl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 fence	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 fence	nmod:poss
13	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 surrounded	obl:agent
14	through	through	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 pass	obl
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 pass	nsubj
17	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fence	acl:relcl
18	between	between	ADP	_	23 gates	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 gates	det
20	often	often	ADV	_	22 mentioned	advmod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 often	punct
22	mentioned	mention	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 gates	amod
23	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pass	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	present	we	the better class of homestead		sometimes property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer class=Stimulus
2	surround	participle		the better class of homestead not said here			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	pass	present	we		homestead's fence	between the mentioned gates	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through which=Location
4	mention speech: other	participle				often property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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