Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 13
Ivashko waited; a second flock flew past, and he again cried imploringly:
Who acts: Ivashko, second flock, flock · What happens: wait, fly, cry
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivashko, second flock, flock), 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 | Ivashko | Ivashko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 waited | nsubj |
| 2 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 flew | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 flock | det |
| 5 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 flock | amod |
| 6 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flew | nsubj |
| 7 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 waited | conj |
| 8 | past | past | ADV | _ | 7 flew | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cried | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 cried | advmod |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 waited | conj |
| 14 | imploringly | imploringly | ADV | _ | 13 cried | advmod |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | Ivashko | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fly | past | a second flock | past property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | flock | again | imploringly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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