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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

punctexplccompdetnsubjcasenmodpunctpunctnsubjpunctpunctdetccomppunctnsubjnsubjacl:relclcopdetamodapposcasedetnmodpunctccdetconjaclcasedetoblpunctpunctroot"PUNCTTherePRONisVERBnoDETtraceNOUNofADPthemPRON,PUNCT"PUNCTtheyPRONsaidVERB,PUNCT"PUNCTnoDETnewsNOUN:PUNCTallDETwePRONsawVERBwasAUXanDEToldADJmanNOUNbesideADPaDETwellNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJaDETbowlNOUNfloatingVERBonADPtheDETwaterNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_3 ispunct
2TheretherePRONPronType=Dem3 isexpl
3isbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin11 saidccomp
4nonoDETPronType=Neg5 tracedet
5tracetraceNOUNNumber=Sing3 isnsubj
6ofofADP_7 themcase
7themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs5 tracenmod
8,,PUNCT_3 ispunct
9""PUNCT_3 ispunct
10theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs11 saidnsubj
11saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12,,PUNCT_11 saidpunct
13""PUNCT_15 newspunct
14nonoDETPronType=Neg15 newsdet
15newsnewsNOUNNumber=Sing11 saidccomp
16::PUNCT_23 manpunct
17allallDETPronType=Tot23 mannsubj
18wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs19 sawnsubj
19sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 allacl:relcl
20wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 mancop
21anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art23 mandet
22oldoldADJDegree=Pos23 manamod
23manmanNOUNNumber=Sing15 newsappos
24besidebesideADP_26 wellcase
25aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art26 welldet
26wellwellNOUNNumber=Sing23 mannmod
27,,PUNCT_30 bowlpunct
28andandCCONJ_30 bowlcc
29aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art30 bowldet
30bowlbowlNOUNNumber=Sing23 manconj
31floatingfloatVERBVerbForm=Ger30 bowlacl
32ononADP_34 watercase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 waterdet
34waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing31 floatingobl
35..PUNCT_23 manpunct
36""PUNCT_15 newspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1be in a quotepresentno trace of pursuerstherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2say speech: assertpastpursuers = pursuervn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3see in a quotepastwevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4is a in a quotepastalla old man and a bowla welltree rules
5float in a quotegerunda bowl not said herethe watervn 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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