Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 78
His brothers lowered him accordingly, and when he had reached the other world, underneath the earth, he went on his way.
Who acts: brothers, NORKA · What happens: lower, reach, go · To what, where: NORKA, other world, way
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, NORKA), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lowered | nsubj |
| 3 | lowered | lower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lowered | obj |
| 5 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 3 lowered | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 reached | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 reached | cc |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 reached | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 reached | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 reached | aux |
| 11 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 lowered | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 world | amod |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 earth | punct |
| 16 | underneath | underneath | ADP | _ | 18 earth | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 earth | det |
| 18 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lowered | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 way | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 way | nmod:poss |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lowered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lower | past | NORKA's brothers | NORKA | accordingly property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | reach | past · perfect | NORKA | the other world | underneath the earth | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent world=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | past | NORKA | NORKA's way | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location |
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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