Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 12
At that moment one of the kinsfolk suddenly brought out the light.
Who acts: kinsfolk · What happens: bring out · To what, where: light
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 (kinsfolk), 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 | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 one | obl |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 kinsfolk | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kinsfolk | det |
| 7 | kinsfolk | kinsfolk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 one | nmod |
| 8 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 9 brought | advmod |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 kinsfolk | acl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 brought | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 light | det |
| 12 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring out | participle | the kinsfolk not said here | the light | suddenly property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent light=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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