Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 116
And in that forest there stood a rich palace.
What happens: stand · To what, where: rich palace, forest
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stood | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 forest | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 forest | det |
| 4 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 stood | advmod |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 8 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 palace | amod |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a rich palace | that forest; there | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent palace=Theme in forest=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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