Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 113
Well, it happened one day that the master was not at home, and the journeyman was left all by himself in the smithy.
Who acts: it, master, journeyman · What happens: happen, not be, leave · To what, where: one day, home, journeyman, smithy
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, master, journeyman), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 happened | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 day | nummod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 home | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 master | det |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 home | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 home | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 home | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 home | case |
| 13 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 day | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 left | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 left | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 journeyman | det |
| 17 | journeyman | journeyman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 left | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 left | aux:pass |
| 19 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 happened | conj |
| 20 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 left | advmod |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 himself | case |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 left | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 smithy | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 smithy | det |
| 25 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 left | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | the master | one day not said here | home | tree rules | |||
| 3 | leave | past · passive | journeyman | the journeyman | the smithy | all property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in smithy=Location |
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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