Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 58
The husband returned home joyfully, and remained there three days; on the fourth day he went to see how things were going on.
Who acts: husband, moujik, things · What happens: return, remain, go, see, go on · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (husband, moujik, things), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 husband | det |
| 2 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 returned | advmod |
| 5 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 3 returned | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 remained | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 remained | cc |
| 8 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 remained | advmod |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 days | nummod |
| 11 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 remained | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 day | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 day | det |
| 15 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 day | amod |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 went | xcomp |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 going | advmod |
| 22 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 going | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 going | aux |
| 24 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 see | ccomp |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 going | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the husband | home, joyfully property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | remain | past | the husband not said here | there | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | past | moujik | day | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | moujik not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | go on | past · progressive | things | vn function-105.2.1 «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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