Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 117
The mother remained for some time on the dike, wailed a little, and then went home.
Who acts: mother · What happens: remain, wail, go · To what, where: dike, little
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 (mother), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mother | det |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remained | nsubj |
| 3 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remained | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 dike | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dike | det |
| 9 | dike | dike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remained | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wailed | punct |
| 11 | wailed | wail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remained | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 little | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wailed | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 went | advmod |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remained | conj |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | the mother | the dike | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on dike=Location | |||
| 2 | wail | past | the mother not said here | a little | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the mother not said here | then | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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