Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 167
When he reached home, then only did he learn that a son had been born to him.
Who acts: King · What happens: reach, learn, bear · To what, where: son, King
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 (King), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 learn | advcl |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 reached | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 learn | advmod |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 learn | advmod |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 learn | aux |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 learn | nsubj |
| 10 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 born | mark |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 son | det |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 born | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 born | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 born | aux:pass |
| 16 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 learn | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 born | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 learn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | King | home property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | learn | past · do-support | King | then | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bear | past · perfect · passive | a son | King | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/167/