Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 82
Just then a raven came flying by, and it croaked:
Who acts: raven · What happens: come, fly by, croak
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 (raven), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 came | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 raven | det |
| 4 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 croaked | advcl |
| 6 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 came | xcomp |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 flying | fixed |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 croaked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 croaked | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 croaked | nsubj |
| 11 | croaked | croak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 croaked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a raven | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly by | gerund | a raven not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | croak | past | raven | vn animal_sounds-38 «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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