Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 31
They usually come either to an opening which leads into the underground world, or to the base of an apparently inaccessible hill.
Who acts: brothers, opening · What happens: come, lead · To what, where: opening, underground world
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, opening), 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 | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 3 come | advmod |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 come | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 opening | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 opening | det |
| 7 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 leads | nsubj |
| 9 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 opening | acl:relcl |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 world | det |
| 12 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 world | amod |
| 13 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leads | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 base | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 base | cc |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 base | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 base | det |
| 18 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 hill | case |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 hill | det |
| 21 | apparently | apparently | ADV | _ | 22 inaccessible | advmod |
| 22 | inaccessible | inaccessible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hill | amod |
| 23 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 base | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | brothers = brother | a opening | to the base of a inaccessible hill; either, usually property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to opening=Initial_Location to base=Destination | |||
| 2 | lead | present | a opening | the underground world | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into world=Destination |
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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