Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 106
Afterwards they flew beyond thrice nine lands: long, long did they fly.
Who acts: wings · What happens: fly · To what, where: thrice nine lands
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wings), 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 | Afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 7 lands | case |
| 5 | thrice | thrice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lands | amod |
| 6 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 lands | nummod |
| 7 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flew | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 long | punct |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fly | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 long | punct |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 long | conj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fly | aux |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fly | nsubj |
| 14 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 lands | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | wings = wing | thrice nine lands | afterwards property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beyond land=Location | |||
| 2 | fly | past · do-support | wings = wing | thrice nine lands not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location land=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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