Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 20
He immediately broke off the padlocks, tore open a door, and followed a path leading underground.
Who acts: Ivan, path · What happens: break off, open, follow, lead · To what, where: padlocks, door, path
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 (Ivan, path), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 broke | nsubj |
| 2 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 3 broke | advmod |
| 3 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 padlocks | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 padlocks | det |
| 6 | padlocks | padlock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 broke | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tore | punct |
| 8 | tore | tore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 padlocks | conj |
| 9 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 broke | xcomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 open | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 followed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 followed | cc |
| 14 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 broke | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 path | det |
| 16 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 followed | obj |
| 17 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 path | acl |
| 18 | underground | underground | ADV | _ | 17 leading | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break off | past | Ivan | the padlocks and tore | immediately property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | open | infinitive | Ivan not said here | a door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 3 | follow | past | Ivan not said here | a path | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lead | gerund | a path not said here | underground property | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
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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