Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 112
All of a sudden a window opened, and a party of robbers crept through it into the church.
Who acts: window, party · What happens: open, creep · To what, where: window
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 (window, party), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg22373:709): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | ExtPos=ADV PronType=Tot | 7 opened | advmod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 All | fixed |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 1 All | fixed |
| 4 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 All | fixed |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 window | det |
| 6 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 opened | nsubj |
| 7 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 crept | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 crept | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 party | det |
| 11 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 crept | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 robbers | case |
| 13 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 party | nmod |
| 14 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 opened | conj |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 crept | obl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 church | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 church | det |
| 19 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 crept | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | a window | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | creep | past | a party of robbers | window | into the church | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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