Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 46
Soon had they built a crystal bridge, and traced cunning devices on it; and then they dispersed to their homes.
Who acts: sides · What happens: build, trace, disperse · To what, where: crystal bridge, cunning devices, bridge
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 (sides), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg22373:1814): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 built | advmod |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 built | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 built | nsubj |
| 4 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bridge | det |
| 6 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bridge | compound |
| 7 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 built | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 traced | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 traced | cc |
| 10 | traced | trace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 built | conj |
| 11 | cunning | cunning | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 devices | amod |
| 12 | devices | device | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 traced | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 traced | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 dispersed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 dispersed | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 dispersed | advmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 dispersed | nsubj |
| 19 | dispersed | disperse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 built | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 homes | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 homes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 dispersed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · perfect | sides = side | a crystal bridge | soon property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bridge=Product | |||
| 2 | trace | participle | sides = side not said here | cunning devices | bridge | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent device=Theme on it=Destination | |||
| 3 | disperse | past | sides = side | then | to sides's homes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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