Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 111
"There is no trace of them," they said, "no news: all we saw was an old man beside a well, and a bowl floating on the water."
Who acts: trace, pursuers, we, all, bowl · What happens: be, say, see, float · To what, where: old man, well, water · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (trace, pursuers, we, all), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 trace | det |
| 5 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 trace | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 news | punct |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 news | det |
| 15 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 man | punct |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 man | nsubj |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 all | acl:relcl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 man | cop |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 news | appos |
| 24 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 26 well | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 well | det |
| 26 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 man | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 bowl | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 bowl | cc |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 bowl | det |
| 30 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 man | conj |
| 31 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 bowl | acl |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 water | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 water | det |
| 34 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 floating | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 man | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 news | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | no trace of pursuers | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | pursuers = pursuer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | past | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | past | all | a old man and a bowl | a well | tree rules | |||
| 5 | float in a quote | gerund | a bowl not said here | the water | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory |
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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