Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 137
Lo and behold! there were all three copecks floating on the surface of the water.
Who acts: three copecks · What happens: be, float · To what, where: surface
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 (three copecks), 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 | Lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 6 were | discourse |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 behold | cc |
| 3 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 1 Lo | conj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lo | punct |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 were | expl |
| 6 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 three | advmod |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 copecks | nummod |
| 9 | copecks | copeck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 were | nsubj |
| 10 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 copecks | acl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 surface | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 surface | det |
| 13 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 floating | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 water | det |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 surface | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | three copecks | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | float | gerund | three copecks not said here | the surface of the water | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on surface=Trajectory |
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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