Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 17
But by this time the girl's father had returned home, and he asked:
Who acts: father · What happens: return, ask
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 returned | cc |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 returned | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 girl | case |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 returned | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 returned | aux |
| 10 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 returned | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 asked | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 returned | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past · perfect | the girl's father | time | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | father | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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