Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 89
The brothers awoke, and when they heard the cry of the Raven, they hastened to their brother's aid.
Who acts: brothers, Raven · What happens: awake, hear, hasten, cry · To what, where: cry, aid
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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brothers | det |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 awoke | nsubj |
| 3 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hastened | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hastened | cc |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 heard | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hastened | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cry | det |
| 10 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Raven | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Raven | det |
| 13 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 cry | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hastened | nsubj |
| 16 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 awoke | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 aid | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 brother | nmod:poss |
| 19 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 aid | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 brother | case |
| 21 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hastened | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | the brothers | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | brothers = brother | the cry of the Raven | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hasten | past | brothers = brother | brothers's brother's aid | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to aid=Destination | ||||
| 4 | cry | the Raven | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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