Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 136
As soon as he reached the gates there appeared the fair maiden, and asked:
Who acts: Petrusha · What happens: reach, appear, ask · To what, where: gates, fair maiden
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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 reached | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 reached | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gates | det |
| 7 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 reached | obj |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 appeared | advmod |
| 9 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reached | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 maiden | det |
| 11 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 maiden | amod |
| 12 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 appeared | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 asked | cc |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reached | parataxis |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Petrusha | the gates | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent gate=Theme | |||
| 2 | appear | past | Petrusha not said here | the fair maiden | there | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location maiden=Theme | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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