Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 104
I hear a great noise as of chasing after us."
Who acts: I · What happens: hear, chase · To what, where: great noise
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 hear | nsubj |
| 2 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 noise | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 noise | amod |
| 5 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hear | obj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 chasing | mark |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 as | fixed |
| 8 | chasing | chase | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 hear | advcl |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 us | case |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 chasing | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hear | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | I | a great noise | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | chase | gerund | I not said here | after us | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after we=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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