Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 113
He wept and wept--and then returned back again to Marya Morevna.
Who acts: steed · What happens: weep, return back · To what, where: Marya
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 (steed), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wept | nsubj |
| 2 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 wept | cc |
| 4 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wept | conj |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 returned | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 returned | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 returned | advmod |
| 8 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wept | conj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 returned | advmod |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 returned | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Marya | case |
| 12 | Marya | Marya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 returned | obl |
| 13 | Morevna | Morevna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Marya | flat |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | steed | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | weep | past | steed not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | return back | past | steed not said here | Marya | then; again | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to marya=Result |
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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