Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 3
He could not find a steed to suit him, so he wandered with drooping brow along the road and about the town.
Who acts: Ivan · What happens: not find, suit, wander, droop · To what, where: steed, Ivan, brow, road
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), 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 | 4 find | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 find | advmod |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 steed | det |
| 6 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 suit | mark |
| 8 | suit | suit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 steed | acl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 suit | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wandered | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 wandered | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wandered | nsubj |
| 13 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | conj |
| 14 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 15 drooping | mark |
| 15 | drooping | droop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 wandered | advcl |
| 16 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drooping | obj |
| 17 | along | along | ADP | _ | 19 road | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 road | det |
| 19 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drooping | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 town | cc |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 town | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 town | det |
| 23 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 road | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find | could | Ivan | a steed | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Topic | ||||
| 2 | suit | to-infinitive | Ivan not said here | Ivan | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wander | past | Ivan | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | droop | gerund | Ivan not said here | brow | the road and the town | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent brow=Theme along road=Destination |
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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