Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 59
When his comrades return, they are surprised to find him unhurt, and a meal prepared for them, but they ask no questions.
Who acts: comrades · What happens: return, be, find, prepare, ask · To what, where: Ivan, meal, questions
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 (comrades), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 return | mark |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 3 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 return | nsubj |
| 4 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 surprised | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 return | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 surprised | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 surprised | cop |
| 8 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 find | mark |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 surprised | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 find | obj |
| 12 | unhurt | unhurt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 find | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 meal | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 meal | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 meal | det |
| 16 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 surprised | parataxis |
| 17 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 meal | acl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 prepared | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ask | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 ask | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ask | nsubj |
| 23 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 surprised | parataxis |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 questions | det |
| 25 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 ask | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | present | Ivan's comrades | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | comrades = comrade | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | comrades = comrade not said here | Ivan | unhurt property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||
| 4 | prepare | participle | a meal not said here | for comrades = comrade | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for they=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | present | comrades = comrade | no questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |
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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