Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 89
On the morrow he came again, but it was just the same story as before.
Who acts: man, morrow · What happens: come, be · To what, where: morrow, same story
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 (man, morrow), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 morrow | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morrow | det |
| 3 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 story | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 story | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 story | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 story | cop |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 story | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 story | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 story | amod |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 before | case |
| 16 | before | before | ADV | _ | 14 story | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | man | the morrow | again | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on morrow=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | morrow | the same story | tree rules |
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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