Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 50
At first the thread followed the road, then it stretched across hedges and ditches, and led Marusia towards the church and right up to the porch.
Who acts: thread · What happens: follow, stretch, lead · To what, where: road, hedges, Marusia, church
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 (thread), 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 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 followed | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thread | det |
| 4 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 followed | nsubj |
| 5 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 road | det |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 followed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stretched | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 stretched | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stretched | nsubj |
| 11 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 followed | parataxis |
| 12 | across | across | ADP | _ | 13 hedges | case |
| 13 | hedges | hedge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stretched | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ditches | cc |
| 15 | ditches | ditch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hedges | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 led | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 led | cc |
| 18 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stretched | conj |
| 19 | Marusia | Marusia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 led | obj |
| 20 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 22 church | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 church | det |
| 22 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 led | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 porch | cc |
| 24 | right | right | ADV | _ | 25 up | advmod |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 porch | case |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 porch | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 porch | det |
| 28 | porch | porch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 church | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | the thread | the road | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent road=Theme at first=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | stretch | past | thread | hedges and ditches | then | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across hedge=Location | |||
| 3 | lead | past | thread not said here | Marusia | the church and the porch | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent marusia=Theme towards church=Destination |
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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