Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 93
Suddenly there appeared the crow with her little crows, and set off after the duck, and caught it, and brought it to Prince Ivan.
What happens: appear, set off, catch, bring · To what, where: crow, delight, Prince Ivan
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: 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 appeared | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 appeared | advmod |
| 3 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 crow | det |
| 5 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appeared | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 crows | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 crows | nmod:poss |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 crows | amod |
| 9 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 appeared | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 set | cc |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 appeared | conj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 set | compound:prt |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 duck | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 duck | det |
| 16 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 set | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 caught | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 caught | cc |
| 19 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 appeared | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 caught | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 brought | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 brought | cc |
| 23 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 appeared | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 brought | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Ivan | case |
| 26 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Ivan | compound |
| 27 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 brought | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the crow | there | with hole's little crows; suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crow=Theme | |||
| 2 | set off | past | after the duck | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | catch | past | delight | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bring | past | delight | Prince Ivan | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to ivan=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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