Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 72
On he went one day, on he went another day, and by the dawn of the third day he saw a palace still grander than the former one, and hard by the palace stood an oak, and on the oak sat an eagle.
Who acts: Falcon · What happens: go, see, stand, sit · To what, where: palace, oak, eagle
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 (Falcon), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | advcl |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 day | nummod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 7 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 9 went | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 saw | cc |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 dawn | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dawn | det |
| 16 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 day | det |
| 19 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 day | amod |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dawn | nmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 palace | det |
| 24 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obj |
| 25 | still | still | ADV | _ | 26 grander | advmod |
| 26 | grander | grand | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 palace | amod |
| 27 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 one | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 one | det |
| 29 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 one | amod |
| 30 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 grander | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 hard | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 hard | cc |
| 33 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 went | conj |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 palace | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 palace | det |
| 36 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 stood | obl |
| 37 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 hard | conj |
| 38 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 oak | det |
| 39 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 stood | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 sat | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 sat | cc |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 oak | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 oak | det |
| 44 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 sat | obl |
| 45 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 46 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 eagle | det |
| 47 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 sat | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Falcon | day | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Falcon | day | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Falcon | a palace | dawn | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | stand | past | Falcon not said here | a oak | by the palace | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent oak=Theme by palace=Destination | |||
| 5 | sit | past | Falcon not said here | a eagle | the oak | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent eagle=Theme on oak=Location |
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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