Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 10
In the evening came the lads with the music, bringing liquor with them, and dancing and revelry commenced.
Who acts: dancing · What happens: come, bring, commence · To what, where: lads, liquor
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dancing), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lads | det |
| 6 | lads | lad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 music | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 music | det |
| 9 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lads | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bringing | punct |
| 11 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 came | advcl |
| 12 | liquor | liquor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bringing | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bringing | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 commenced | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 commenced | cc |
| 17 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 commenced | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 revelry | cc |
| 19 | revelry | revelry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dancing | conj |
| 20 | commenced | commence | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the lads | evening | with the music | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lad=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring | gerund | liquor | with lads = lad | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent liquor=Theme | ||||
| 3 | commence | past | dancing and revelry | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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