Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 4
Days follow days, hours chase hours; a whole year goes by.
Who acts: Days, hours, whole year · What happens: follow, chase, go by
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 (Days, hours, whole year), 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 | Days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 follow | nsubj |
| 2 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 follow | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 chase | punct |
| 5 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 chase | nsubj |
| 6 | chase | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 follow | conj |
| 7 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 chase | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 goes | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 year | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 year | amod |
| 11 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 goes | nsubj |
| 12 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 follow | parataxis |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 goes | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present | Days | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | chase | present | hours | hour | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go by | present | a whole year | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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