Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 180
Then he and she were escorted back to the palace, and as they went along, the proper bridegroom, his eldest brother, met them.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: escort back, go along, meet · To what, where: God, palace, proper bridegroom, brothers
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 escorted | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 escorted | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 escorted | cc |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 escorted | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 escorted | aux:pass |
| 6 | escorted | escort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 escorted | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 escorted | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 went | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 escorted | parataxis |
| 16 | along | along | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bridegroom | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bridegroom | det |
| 19 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bridegroom | amod |
| 20 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 brother | punct |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 brother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 brother | amod |
| 24 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bridegroom | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 met | punct |
| 26 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 went | conj |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 met | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 escorted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escort back | past · passive | God | the palace | then | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to palace=Destination | |||
| 2 | go along | past | brothers = brother | the proper bridegroom and God's eldest brother | along property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | meet | past | brothers = brother not said here | brothers = brother | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |
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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