Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 9

Home went Vasilissa at a run, lit by the skull, which went out only at the approach of the dawn; and at last, on the evening of the second day, she reached home.

Who acts: Home, skull, dawn · What happens: go, lit, go out, reach, approach · To what, where: run, approach, last

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 (Home, skull, dawn), 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	Home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Vasilissa	Vasilissa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 went	flat
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 run	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 run	det
6	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lit	punct
8	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 run	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 skull	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 skull	det
11	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lit	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 skull	acl:relcl
15	out	out	ADV	_	14 went	advmod
16	only	only	ADV	_	19 approach	advmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 approach	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 approach	det
19	approach	approach	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 dawn	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dawn	det
22	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 approach	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 reached	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 reached	cc
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 last	case
26	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 reached	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 evening	punct
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 evening	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 evening	det
30	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 last	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 day	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 day	det
33	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	34 day	amod
34	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 evening	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 last	punct
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 reached	nsubj
37	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
38	home	home	ADV	_	37 reached	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Home		a run		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at run=Location
2	lit	participle		a run not said here		by the skull	tree rules
3	go out	past	the skull		the approach of the dawn	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	reach	past	Home		last	home property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	approach		the dawn				nom approach «act intransitive»: of=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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