Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 5
Several days passed, and then people began looking everywhere for the Diachok, asking everyone about him.
Who acts: Several days, people · What happens: pass, begin, look, ask · To what, where: everyone
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 (Several days, people), 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 days | amod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 began | cc |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 began | advmod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 began | nsubj |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 9 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 began | xcomp |
| 10 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 looking | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 Diachok | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Diachok | det |
| 13 | Diachok | Diachok | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 looking | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asking | punct |
| 15 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 looking | conj |
| 16 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 asking | obj |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asking | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Several days | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | people | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | people not said here | for the Diachok; everywhere property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for diachok=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | gerund | people not said here | everyone | about man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient about he=Topic |
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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