Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 77
He was black, dressed all in black, and on a black horse.
Who acts: horseman · What happens: be, dress · To what, where: all, black
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horseman), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 black | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 black | cop |
| 3 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dressed | punct |
| 5 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 black | acl |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 dressed | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 black | case |
| 8 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dressed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 horse | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 horse | cc |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 horse | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 horse | det |
| 13 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 horse | amod |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 black | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 black | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | horseman | black property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dress | participle | all | black | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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