Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 27
They all greeted each other, and rode on together, till they came to an iron rock[114] a hundred and fifty poods in weight, and on it was this inscription, "Whosoever will fling this rock against the mountain, to him will a way be opened."
Who acts: brothers, weight · What happens: greet, ride, come, be, fling, open · To what, where: each, hundred poods, iron rock, inscription, Whosoever, Ivan · Speech: someone speaks here
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, weight), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 greeted | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 greeted | advmod |
| 3 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 3 greeted | obj |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 each | fixed |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rode | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rode | cc |
| 8 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 greeted | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 together | case |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 rode | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 came | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rode | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 rock | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 rock | det |
| 17 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rock | compound |
| 18 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 19 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 20 114 | punct |
| 20 | 114 | 114 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 rock | appos |
| 21 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 20 114 | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 hundred | det |
| 23 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 poods | nummod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 fifty | cc |
| 25 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 hundred | conj |
| 26 | poods | pood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 came | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 weight | case |
| 28 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 poods | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 inscription | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 inscription | cc |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 inscription | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 inscription | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 inscription | cop |
| 34 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 inscription | det |
| 35 | inscription | inscription | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 greeted | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 fling | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 fling | punct |
| 38 | Whosoever | whosoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 fling | obj |
| 39 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 fling | aux |
| 40 | fling | fling | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 inscription | conj |
| 41 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 42 rock | det |
| 42 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 fling | obj |
| 43 | against | against | ADP | _ | 45 mountain | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 mountain | det |
| 45 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 fling | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 him | punct |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 him | case |
| 48 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 49 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 53 opened | aux |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 way | det |
| 51 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 52 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 53 opened | aux:pass |
| 53 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 fling | parataxis |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 inscription | punct |
| 55 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 inscription | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | greet speech: greet | past | brothers = brother | each | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ride | past | brothers = brother not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | past | brothers = brother | hundred poods in weight | a iron rock | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rock=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | is | past | weight | this inscription | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fling in a quote | future | weight not said here | Whosoever | against the mountain | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent whosoever=Destination rock=Theme | |||
| 6 | open in a quote | future · passive | Ivan | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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