Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 123
All that we saw was an old priest and an ancient church."
Who acts: we, All · What happens: see, be · To what, where: old priest
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 (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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 priest | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 saw | obj |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 All | acl:relcl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 priest | cop |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 priest | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 priest | amod |
| 8 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 church | cc |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 church | det |
| 11 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 church | amod |
| 12 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 priest | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 church | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 church | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | All | a old priest and a ancient church | tree rules |
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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