Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 109
A week passed by, and one day they saw ever so many snakes, a huge troop of them, wriggling up to their cottage. "
Who acts: shifts · What happens: pass by, see, wriggle up · To what, where: many snakes
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shifts), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 week | det |
| 2 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 passed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 day | nummod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 saw | advmod |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 many | advmod |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 snakes | amod |
| 14 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 saw | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 troop | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 troop | det |
| 17 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 troop | amod |
| 18 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 snakes | appos |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 troop | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wriggling | punct |
| 22 | wriggling | wriggle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 saw | advcl |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 wriggling | compound:prt |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 cottage | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 cottage | nmod:poss |
| 26 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wriggling | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass by | participle | week | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | shifts = shift | many snakes | ever; day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snake=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | wriggle up | gerund | shifts = shift not said here | to shifts's cottage | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=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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