Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 145
Soon afterwards a seigneur's son happened to drive past Marusia's grave.
Who acts: son · What happens: happen, drive · To what, where: grave
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 (son), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 afterwards | advmod |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 7 happened | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 seigneur | det |
| 4 | seigneur | seigneur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 seigneur | case |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 drive | mark |
| 9 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 happened | xcomp |
| 10 | past | past | ADP | _ | 13 grave | case |
| 11 | Marusia | Marusia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 grave | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Marusia | case |
| 13 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drive | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | a seigneur's son | afterwards property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drive | to-infinitive | a seigneur's son not said here | Marusia's grave | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent past grave=Trajectory |
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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