Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 122
Then the canoe floated on farther and farther, and Ivashko began to fish.
Who acts: canoe, Ivashko · What happens: be, begin, fish
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (canoe, Ivashko), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 farther | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 canoe | det |
| 3 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 farther | nsubj |
| 4 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 farther | cop |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 farther | case |
| 6 | farther | far | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 farther | cc |
| 8 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 farther | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 began | cc |
| 11 | Ivashko | Ivashko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 began | nsubj |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 farther | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 fish | mark |
| 14 | fish | fish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 began | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 farther | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | participle | the canoe | then | far property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | begin | past | Ivashko | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | fish | to-infinitive | Ivashko not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «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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