Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 101
Towards evening he was returning home, when his good steed stumbled beneath him.
Who acts: Koshchei, good steed · What happens: return, stumble
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Koshchei, good steed), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg22373:1322): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Towards | towards | ADP | _ | 2 evening | case |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returning | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 returning | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 returning | aux |
| 5 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 returning | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stumbled | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 stumbled | advmod |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 steed | nmod:poss |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 steed | amod |
| 11 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stumbled | nsubj |
| 12 | stumbled | stumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 returning | advcl |
| 13 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stumbled | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 returning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past · progressive | Koshchei | evening | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | stumble | past | Koshchei's good steed | beneath Koshchei | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath he=Trajectory |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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