Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 70
His steed stumbled, his hound howled, his falcon clamored.
Who acts: steed, hound, falcon · What happens: stumble, howl, clamor
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 (steed, hound, falcon), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 steed | nmod:poss |
| 2 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stumbled | nsubj |
| 3 | stumbled | stumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 howled | punct |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hound | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 howled | nsubj |
| 7 | howled | howl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stumbled | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 clamored | punct |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 falcon | nmod:poss |
| 10 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 clamored | nsubj |
| 11 | clamored | clamor | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 howled | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stumbled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stumble | past | IVAN's steed | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | howl | past | steed's hound | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | clamor | past | steed's falcon | 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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