Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 51
The moment Marya Morevna had gone he rushed to the closet, pulled open the door, and looked in--there hung Koshchei the Deathless, fettered by twelve chains.
Who acts: moment, Prince · What happens: go, rush, pull, open, look in, hang · To what, where: closet, door, Koshchei, Deathless
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 (moment, Prince), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 moment | det |
| 2 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | Marya | Marya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 moment | appos |
| 4 | Morevna | Morevna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Marya | flat |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | aux |
| 6 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 rushed | advcl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 rushed | nsubj |
| 8 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 closet | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 closet | det |
| 11 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rushed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pulled | punct |
| 13 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rushed | conj |
| 14 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 pulled | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 open | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 looked | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 looked | cc |
| 19 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rushed | parataxis |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 looked | compound:prt |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 hung | punct |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 hung | expl |
| 23 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 looked | conj |
| 24 | Koshchei | Koshchei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 hung | obj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Deathless | det |
| 26 | Deathless | Deathless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 hung | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fettered | punct |
| 28 | fettered | fetter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 Deathless | acl |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 chains | case |
| 30 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 chains | nummod |
| 31 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 fettered | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | the moment | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | rush | past | Prince | the closet | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to closet=Destination | ||||
| 3 | pull | past | Prince not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | open | infinitive | Prince not said here | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 5 | look in | past | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 6 | hang | past | Koshchei | there | the Deathless obl | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent koshchei=Patient | |||
| 7 | fetter | participle | the Deathless not said here | by twelve chains | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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