Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 32
Before long there arrived a messenger demanding her instant appearance at court.
What happens: arrive, demand · To what, where: messenger, instant appearance, court
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: 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 arrived | mark |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 there | advmod |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 arrived | advmod |
| 4 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 messenger | det |
| 6 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | obj |
| 7 | demanding | demand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 arrived | advcl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 9 | instant | instant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 appearance | amod |
| 10 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 demanding | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 court | case |
| 12 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 demanding | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | a messenger | there | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | gerund | Vasilissa's instant appearance | court | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme appearance=Precondition |
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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