Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 66
Here he swept a path, there he trained a twig.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: sweep, train · To what, where: path, twig
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 (Prince), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 swept | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 swept | nsubj |
| 3 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 path | det |
| 5 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swept | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 trained | punct |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 trained | expl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 trained | nsubj |
| 9 | trained | train | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 swept | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 twig | det |
| 11 | twig | twig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trained | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sweep | past | Prince | a path | here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme path=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | train | past | Prince | a twig | there | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twig=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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