Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 117
Well, he entered the palace, and a fair maiden caught sight of him.
Who acts: Petrusha, fair maiden · What happens: enter, catch, sight · To what, where: palace
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, fair maiden), 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 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 entered | nsubj |
| 4 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sight | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sight | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 maiden | det |
| 10 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 maiden | amod |
| 11 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sight | nsubj |
| 12 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 sight | amod |
| 13 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sight | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Petrusha | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination | ||||
| 2 | catch | participle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | sight | a fair maiden | of Petrusha | tree rules |
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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