Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 15
One day she happened to go to the river for water, and when she got there she saw a barrel floating along.
Who acts: maid, barrel · What happens: happen, go, get, see, float · To what, where: river, barrel
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 (maid, barrel), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 happened | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 river | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 river | det |
| 9 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 saw | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 got | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 got | nsubj |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 saw | advcl |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 got | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 barrel | det |
| 21 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | obj |
| 22 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 barrel | acl |
| 23 | along | along | ADV | _ | 22 floating | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | maid | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | maid not said here | the river | for water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | get | past | maid | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | see | past | maid | a barrel | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer barrel=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | float | gerund | a barrel not said here | along property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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