Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 21
When he got there--sure enough there was the barrel floating, and not far from the shore.
Who acts: straightway, barrel · What happens: get, be, float
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 (straightway, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 6 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | xcomp |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 6 sure | advmod |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sure | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 barrel | det |
| 11 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | nsubj |
| 12 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 barrel | acl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 far | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 far | cc |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 far | advmod |
| 16 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 floating | advmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 shore | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 shore | det |
| 19 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 far | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | straightway | there | sure property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | be | past | the barrel | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | float | gerund | the barrel not said here | far 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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