Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 13
The merchant arrived in a far off land, and put up at an inn.
Who acts: merchant · What happens: arrive, put up · To what, where: land, inn
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 (merchant), 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 merchant | det |
| 2 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 land | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 land | det |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 land | advmod |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 land | case |
| 8 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 put | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 put | cc |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 arrived | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 put | compound:prt |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 inn | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 inn | det |
| 15 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the merchant | a land | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put up | participle | the merchant not said here | a inn | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at inn=Destination |
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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