Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 64
He rode and rode, and presently there stood before him a hut on fowl's legs,[76] and in that hut lived the Snake.
Who acts: forehead, hut · What happens: ride, stand, live · To what, where: 76, hut, legs, Snake
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 (forehead, hut), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 rode | cc |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rode | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stood | cc |
| 7 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 8 there | advmod |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 stood | advmod |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rode | conj |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stood | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hut | det |
| 13 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 legs | case |
| 15 | fowl | fowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 legs | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 fowl | case |
| 17 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stood | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 76 | punct |
| 19 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 20 76 | punct |
| 20 | 76 | 76 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 rode | obl |
| 21 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 20 76 | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 lived | cc |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 hut | case |
| 24 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 hut | det |
| 25 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lived | nsubj |
| 26 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rode | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Snake | det |
| 28 | Snake | Snake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 lived | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | forehead | 76 | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ride | past | forehead not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | forehead not said here | a hut | fowl's legs; there | before forehead | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | ||
| 4 | live | past | that hut | the Snake | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme snake=Location |
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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