Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 36
In the course of time the King-Bear arrives to claim them, finds out their hiding-place, digs them up, and carries them off on his back to a distant region where no man lives.
Who acts: King, man · What happens: arrive, claim, find out, dig up, carry off, live · To what, where: time, twins, hiding place, course, back
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, man), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 course | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 course | det |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 finds | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 course | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 arrives | nsubj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Bear | punct |
| 9 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 King | conj |
| 10 | arrives | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 claim | mark |
| 12 | claim | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 arrives | advcl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 claim | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 course | punct |
| 15 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 finds | compound:prt |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 place | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 place | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 hiding | punct |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 finds | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 digs | punct |
| 22 | digs | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 finds | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 digs | obj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 digs | compound:prt |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 carries | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 carries | cc |
| 27 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 finds | conj |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 carries | obj |
| 29 | off | off | ADP | _ | 27 carries | compound:prt |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 back | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 back | nmod:poss |
| 32 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 carries | obl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 region | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 region | det |
| 35 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 region | amod |
| 36 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 carries | obl |
| 37 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 40 lives | advmod |
| 38 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 39 man | det |
| 39 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 lives | nsubj |
| 40 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 region | acl:relcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 finds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | present | the King and Bear | time not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | claim speech: other | to-infinitive | the King and Bear not said here | twins = twin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Topic | ||||
| 3 | find out | present | twins's hiding place | the course of time | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | ||||
| 4 | dig up | present | twins = twin | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||||
| 5 | carry off | present | twins = twin | King's back | to a distant region | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to region=Destination | |||
| 6 | live | present | no man | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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