Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 53
After weeping over her dead body he sets out in search of a Wailer.
Who acts: man · What happens: weep, set out, search · To what, where: dead body, search, Wailer
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 (man), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 weeping | mark |
| 2 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 sets | advcl |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 body | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 body | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 body | amod |
| 6 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 weeping | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sets | nsubj |
| 8 | sets | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 sets | compound:prt |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 search | case |
| 11 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sets | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Wailer | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Wailer | det |
| 14 | Wailer | Wailer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 search | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sets | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | gerund | man not said here | woman's dead body | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | set out | present | man | search of a Wailer | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | search | a Wailer | nom search «act 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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