Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 92
Scarcely had he got half-way across when he tripped over a stone, tumbled into the water--and there was an end of him.
Who acts: Scarcely, way, end · What happens: have, get, trip, tumble, be · To what, where: way, stone, water
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 (Scarcely, way, end), 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 | Scarcely | Scarcely | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | ccomp |
| 5 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 7 way | advmod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 half | punct |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 8 | across | across | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 tripped | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 tripped | nsubj |
| 11 | tripped | trip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | advcl |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 stone | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 stone | det |
| 14 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tripped | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tumbled | punct |
| 16 | tumbled | tumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 stone | acl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 water | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 water | det |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tumbled | obl |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 was | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 was | cc |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 was | expl |
| 23 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 end | det |
| 25 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 was | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 end | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Scarcely | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get | past | Scarcely | way | across property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | trip | past | way | a stone | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over stone=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | tumble | participle | a stone not said here | the water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | be | past | a end of way | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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