Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 59
The Spider came, and there he found a cricket, a beetle, and a bug.
Who acts: Spider, waving · What happens: come, find · To what, where: cricket
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 (Spider, waving), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Spider | det |
| 2 | Spider | Spider | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 found | cc |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 found | expl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cricket | det |
| 10 | cricket | cricket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beetle | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 beetle | det |
| 13 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cricket | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bug | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bug | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bug | det |
| 17 | bug | bug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Spider | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | waving | a cricket | there | a bug obl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cricket=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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