Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 109
There came a Cossack, and asked for the Golova; but the woman had hidden herself.
Who acts: Cossack · What happens: come, ask, hide · To what, where: woman
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cossack), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 came | expl |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Cossack | det |
| 4 | Cossack | cossack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 asked | cc |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 Golova | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Golova | det |
| 10 | Golova | Golova | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 hidden | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 hidden | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hidden | aux |
| 16 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 came | advcl |
| 17 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 hidden | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a Cossack | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | for the Golova | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hide | past · perfect · passive | the woman | tree rules |
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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