Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 94
Now when he had reached the hut and was going to take away his gloves, he heard the voices of the Snake's wife and daughters, who were talking with each other.
Who acts: IVAN, daughters · What happens: reach, go, take away, hear, talk · To what, where: hut, gloves, voices
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 (IVAN, daughters), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 reached | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 reached | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reached | aux |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hut | det |
| 7 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 going | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 going | aux |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 reached | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 take | mark |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 going | xcomp |
| 13 | away | away | ADP | _ | 12 take | compound:prt |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 gloves | nmod:poss |
| 15 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 take | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 heard | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 heard | nsubj |
| 18 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reached | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 voices | det |
| 20 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 heard | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 wife | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Snake | det |
| 23 | Snake | Snake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 wife | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 Snake | case |
| 25 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 voices | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 daughters | cc |
| 27 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 wife | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 talking | punct |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 talking | nsubj |
| 30 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 talking | aux |
| 31 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 daughters | acl |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 each | case |
| 33 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 31 talking | obl |
| 34 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 each | fixed |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · perfect | IVAN | the hut | now | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hut=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | IVAN not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take away | to-infinitive | IVAN not said here | IVAN's gloves | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glove=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hear | past | IVAN | the voices of the Snake's wife and daughters | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | talk | past · progressive | daughters | with each | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with each=Co-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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