Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 114
The sister came out to meet them, received her brother cordially, and seated him at the oaken table.
Who acts: sister · What happens: come out, meet, receive, seat · To what, where: lands, brother, Eagle, oaken table
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 (sister), 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 sister | det |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 meet | mark |
| 6 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | advcl |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 meet | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 received | punct |
| 9 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 received | obj |
| 12 | cordially | cordially | ADV | _ | 9 received | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seated | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seated | cc |
| 15 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 seated | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 table | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 table | det |
| 19 | oaken | oaken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 table | amod |
| 20 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seated | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | the sister | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | the sister not said here | lands = land | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | receive | past | sister's brother | cordially property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme | ||||
| 4 | seat | past | the sister not said here | Eagle | the oaken table | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Value |
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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