Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 114
Presently he saw an old lady[70] driving along the street in her carriage, whereupon he popped his head out of doors and began shouting:--
Who acts: journeyman, old lady · What happens: see, drive, pop, begin, shout · To what, where: old lady, carriage, head, doors
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 (journeyman, old lady), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lady | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lady | amod |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 7 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 8 70 | punct |
| 8 | 70 | 70 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 lady | appos |
| 9 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 8 70 | punct |
| 10 | driving | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 lady | acl |
| 11 | along | along | ADP | _ | 13 street | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 street | det |
| 13 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 driving | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 carriage | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 carriage | nmod:poss |
| 16 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 driving | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 popped | punct |
| 18 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 popped | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 popped | nsubj |
| 20 | popped | pop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 popped | obj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 doors | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 doors | case |
| 25 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 popped | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 began | cc |
| 27 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 28 | shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 began | xcomp |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 -- | punct |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | conj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | journeyman | a old lady | presently property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lady=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | drive | gerund | a old lady not said here | Spider's carriage | along the street | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along street=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | pop | past | journeyman | journeyman's head | doors | whereupon property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||
| 4 | begin | past | journeyman not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | shout speech: express | gerund | journeyman not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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