Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 114
Next day Petrusha set off on his visit to the Devil.
Who acts: Petrusha · What happens: set off, visit · To what, where: visit
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Petrusha), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Petrusha | Petrusha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 visit | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 visit | nmod:poss |
| 8 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Devil | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Devil | det |
| 11 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 visit | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set off | past | Petrusha | Petrusha's visit to the Devil | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | visit | Petrusha | to the Devil | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/14/114/