Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 121
So at last one day he took her up to the surface of the water, and brought her ashore.
Who acts: husband · What happens: take up, bring · To what, where: child, surface
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 (husband), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 took | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 day | amod |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 day | compound |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 took | obj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 took | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 surface | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 surface | det |
| 12 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 surface | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brought | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 brought | cc |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 brought | obj |
| 20 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 18 brought | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | husband | child | the surface of the water | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to surface=Destination | ||
| 2 | bring | past | husband not said here | child | ashore property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=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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