Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 78
He galloped up to the Baba Yaga's gate and disappeared, just as if he had sunk through the ground--and night fell.
Who acts: horseman, night · What happens: gallop up, disappear, sink, fall · To what, where: gate, ground
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, night), 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 | 2 galloped | nsubj |
| 2 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 galloped | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 gate | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Yaga | det |
| 6 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Yaga | compound |
| 7 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 gate | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Yaga | case |
| 9 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 galloped | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 disappeared | cc |
| 11 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 galloped | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sunk | punct |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 sunk | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 sunk | mark |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 sunk | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sunk | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sunk | aux |
| 18 | sunk | sink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 disappeared | conj |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 ground | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ground | det |
| 21 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sunk | obl |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 fell | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 fell | cc |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fell | nsubj |
| 25 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 galloped | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 galloped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gallop up | past | horseman | the Baba Yaga's gate | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to gate=Destination | ||||
| 2 | disappear | past | horseman not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sink a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | horseman | the ground | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | night | vn occur-48.3 «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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