Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 65
The Bug crawled in among the ash-tree's roots, and cried:--
Who acts: Bug · What happens: crawl, cry · To what, where: roots
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 (Bug), 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 Bug | det |
| 2 | Bug | Bug | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 crawled | nsubj |
| 3 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 crawled | advmod |
| 5 | among | among | ADP | _ | 11 roots | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 7 | ash | ash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tree | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ash | punct |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 roots | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 11 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 crawled | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cried | cc |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crawled | parataxis |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 crawled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crawl | past | the Bug | the ash tree's roots | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among root=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | 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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