Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 99
They rode and rode; presently they saw before them a green meadow, and on that meadow lay silken cushions.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: ride, see, lie · To what, where: green meadow, silken cushions, meadow
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), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 rode | cc |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rode | conj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 6 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 8 saw | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rode | parataxis |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 meadow | det |
| 12 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 meadow | amod |
| 13 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lay | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lay | cc |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 meadow | case |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 meadow | det |
| 18 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lay | obl |
| 19 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | conj |
| 20 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cushions | amod |
| 21 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 lay | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | brothers = brother | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ride | past | brothers = brother not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | past | brothers = brother | a green meadow | before gloves = glove | presently property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meadow=Stimulus | ||
| 4 | lie | past | brothers = brother not said here | silken cushions | that meadow | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cushion=Theme |
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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