Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 130
Koshchei happened to be away from home at that moment.
Who acts: Koshchei · What happens: happen, be · To what, where: home
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), 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 | Koshchei | Koshchei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 away | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 away | cop |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 happened | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 away | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 moment | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 moment | det |
| 10 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 away | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | Koshchei | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | home | moment | away property | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/22/130/