Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 109
They rode and rode, and by and by they saw a spring in front of them.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: ride, see · To what, where: front
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 (brothers), 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 | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 11 saw | mark |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 by | cc |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 by | conj |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rode | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 spring | det |
| 13 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 front | case |
| 15 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 front | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | brothers = brother | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ride | past | brothers = brother not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | past | brothers = brother | front of cushions | spring | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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