Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 166
He reached the wood; there stood the Birch, waving in the wind, but the ox was not to be seen.
Who acts: simplicity · What happens: reach, stand, wave, not see · To what, where: wood, Birch, ox
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 (simplicity), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wood | det |
| 4 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 stood | advmod |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reached | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Birch | det |
| 9 | Birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 waving | punct |
| 11 | waving | wave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 stood | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 wind | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wind | det |
| 14 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 waving | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 seen | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 seen | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ox | det |
| 18 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seen | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 seen | aux:pass |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 seen | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 seen | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 seen | aux:pass |
| 23 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 stood | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | simplicity | the wood | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent wood=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | simplicity not said here | the Birch | there | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer birch=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | wave | gerund | simplicity not said here | in the wind | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in wind=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not see | past · passive | the ox | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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