Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 104
They rode and rode; presently there stood before them an apple-tree, and upon it were gold and silver apples.
Who acts: cushions, tree · What happens: ride, stand, be · To what, where: apple tree
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cushions, tree), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 rode | cc |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rode | conj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 stood | punct |
| 6 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 7 there | advmod |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 stood | advmod |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 rode | conj |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stood | obl |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 12 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tree | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 apple | punct |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gold | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gold | cc |
| 17 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 20 gold | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 gold | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 gold | cop |
| 20 | gold | gold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rode | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 apples | cc |
| 22 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 apples | amod |
| 23 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 gold | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | cushions = cushion | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ride | past | cushions = cushion not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stand | participle | cushions = cushion not said here | a apple tree | there | before cushions = cushion | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme before they=Destination | ||
| 4 | is | past | tree | gold property | 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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