Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 73
Just at that time there came up behind him a poor moujik, who felt sorry for the beggar, and gave him a copeck.
Who acts: poor moujik · What happens: come up, feel, give · To what, where: poor moujik, copeck, merchant
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 (poor moujik), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 came | advmod |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 moujik | det |
| 11 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 moujik | amod |
| 12 | moujik | moujik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 felt | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 felt | nsubj |
| 15 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 moujik | acl:relcl |
| 16 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 felt | xcomp |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 beggar | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 beggar | det |
| 19 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 felt | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gave | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 gave | cc |
| 22 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gave | iobj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 copeck | det |
| 25 | copeck | copeck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | a poor moujik | there | time | behind merchant | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind he=Location | ||
| 2 | feel | past | a poor moujik | for the beggar; sorry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | give | past | a copeck | merchant | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient copeck=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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