Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 47
One day, after having had his trouble and bother with her he went into the forest to look for berries and distract his grief, and he came to where there was a currant bush, and in the middle of that bush he saw a bottomless pit.
Who acts: proverb · What happens: have, bother, go, look, distract, come · To what, where: trouble, forest, grief, bottomless pit, middle
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 (proverb), 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 | 6 had | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 4 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 having | mark |
| 5 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 had | advcl |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 8 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bother | cc |
| 10 | bother | bother | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 had | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bother | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 bother | ccomp |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 forest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 forest | det |
| 17 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 look | mark |
| 19 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 went | advcl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 berries | case |
| 21 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 look | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 distract | cc |
| 23 | distract | distract | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 look | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 grief | nmod:poss |
| 25 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 distract | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 came | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 came | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 came | nsubj |
| 29 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 had | parataxis |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 where | case |
| 31 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 came | obl |
| 32 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 33 was | expl |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 where | advcl:relcl |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 bush | det |
| 35 | currant | currant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 bush | compound |
| 36 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 was | nsubj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 saw | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 saw | cc |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 middle | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 middle | det |
| 41 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 saw | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 bush | case |
| 43 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 44 bush | det |
| 44 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 middle | nmod |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 saw | nsubj |
| 46 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 came | conj |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 pit | det |
| 48 | bottomless | bottomless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 pit | amod |
| 49 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 saw | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | have | past | proverb's trouble | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bother | infinitive | with thief | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | past | proverb | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | look | to-infinitive | proverb not said here | for berries | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for berry=Theme | ||||
| 6 | distract | infinitive | proverb not said here | proverb's grief | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus grief=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | come | past | proverb | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to where=Initial_Location | |||||
| 8 | see | past | proverb | a bottomless pit | the middle of that bush | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pit=Stimulus | |||
| 9 | trouble | proverb | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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