Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 1
Now as he went along the street, it happened that some small boys had got hold of a kitten and were tormenting it.
Who acts: he, it, small boys · What happens: go, happen, get, torment, hold · To what, where: street, hold, kitten
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, it, small boys), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 went | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | along | along | ADP | _ | 7 street | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 street | det |
| 7 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 happened | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 happened | nsubj |
| 10 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 got | mark |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 boys | det |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 boys | amod |
| 14 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 got | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 got | aux |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 happened | parataxis |
| 17 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 got | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 kitten | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 kitten | det |
| 20 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hold | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 tormenting | cc |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 tormenting | aux |
| 23 | tormenting | torment | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 got | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 tormenting | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | he | the street | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along street=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | happen | past | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | past · perfect | some small boys | hold of a kitten | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | torment | past · progressive | some small boys not said here | hold | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | hold | a kitten | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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