Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 143
And immediately the horse was no longer there, but in its place there stood before Petrusha his own father.
Who acts: horse, place · What happens: be, stand · To what, where: own father
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 (horse, place), 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 | _ | 8 there | cc |
| 2 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 8 there | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 horse | det |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 there | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 there | cop |
| 6 | no | no | ADV | _ | 7 longer | advmod |
| 7 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 there | advmod |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stood | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 stood | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 place | nmod:poss |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | nsubj |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 place | advmod |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 there | parataxis |
| 16 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 Petrusha | case |
| 17 | Petrusha | Petrusha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | obl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 father | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 father | amod |
| 20 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the horse | immediately, long, there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | cross's place | Petrusha's own father | before Petrusha | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent father=Theme before petrusha=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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