Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 104
Well, they entered the cottage, and sat down to table--and there appeared from somewhere or other meat and drink and all sorts of snacks, everything in profusion.
Who acts: feasts · What happens: enter, sit down, appear, sort · To what, where: cottage, other meat, snacks
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feasts), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 entered | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 entered | nsubj |
| 4 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cottage | det |
| 6 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sat | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sat | cc |
| 9 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 entered | conj |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 sat | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 table | case |
| 12 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sat | obl |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 appeared | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 appeared | cc |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 appeared | advmod |
| 16 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 entered | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 somewhere | case |
| 18 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 meat | obl |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 meat | cc |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 meat | amod |
| 21 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 appeared | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 drink | cc |
| 23 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 meat | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sorts | cc |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 sorts | det |
| 26 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 meat | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 snacks | case |
| 28 | snacks | snack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 sorts | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 everything | punct |
| 30 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 21 meat | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 profusion | case |
| 32 | profusion | profusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 everything | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | feasts = feast | the cottage | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cottage=Destination | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past | feasts = feast not said here | to table | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | appear | past | feasts = feast not said here | other meat and drink and all sorts of snacks | there | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location meat=Theme | |||
| 4 | sort | snacks | nom sort «cognition 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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