Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 182
Arriving there, he demanded his money; but the Birch-tree only creaked and creaked. "
Who acts: TREE, Birch tree · What happens: arrive, demand, creak · To what, where: money
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 (TREE, Birch tree), 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 | Arriving | arrive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 demanded | advcl |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Arriving | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Arriving | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 demanded | nsubj |
| 5 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 money | nmod:poss |
| 7 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 demanded | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 creaked | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 creaked | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 11 | Birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tree | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Birch | punct |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 creaked | nsubj |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 creaked | advmod |
| 15 | creaked | creak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 demanded | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 creaked | cc |
| 17 | creaked | creak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 creaked | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 demanded | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 demanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | gerund | TREE not said here | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | past | TREE | TREE's money | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme money=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | creak | past | the Birch tree | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | creak | past | the Birch tree not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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