Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 25
But the story comes to an end before its hero has discovered the surpassing stupidity of which he is in quest.
Who acts: story, horse · What happens: come, discover, surpass, be · To what, where: end, hero, quest
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 (story, horse), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 comes | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | nsubj |
| 4 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 end | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 end | det |
| 7 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | obl |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 discovered | mark |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hero | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 discovered | aux |
| 12 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 comes | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stupidity | det |
| 14 | surpassing | surpass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 stupidity | amod |
| 15 | stupidity | stupidity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 discovered | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 quest | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 quest | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 quest | cop |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 quest | case |
| 21 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stupidity | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the story | to a end | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | discover | present · perfect · passive | story's hero | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | surpass | gerund | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | horse | quest | of the surpassing stupidity | 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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