Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 177
Hungry and faint he wandered on, walked farther and farther and at last came to where stood the house of the Baba Yaga.
Who acts: Hungry · What happens: wander, walk, come, stand · To what, where: last, house
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 (Hungry), 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 | Hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wandered | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 faint | cc |
| 3 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Hungry | conj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wandered | nsubj |
| 5 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 wandered | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 walked | punct |
| 8 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wandered | conj |
| 9 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 walked | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 farther | cc |
| 11 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 farther | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 last | case |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 came | obl |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 walked | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 where | case |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 stood | advmod |
| 18 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 came | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 house | det |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stood | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Yaga | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Yaga | det |
| 23 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Yaga | compound |
| 24 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 house | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | Hungry | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | walk | past | Hungry not said here | far property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Hungry not said here | last | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | Hungry not said here | the house of the Baba Yaga | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus |
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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