Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 138
Meantime the mouse kept running over the strings of the lute.
Who acts: Meantime · What happens: keep, run · To what, where: strings
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 (Meantime), 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 | Meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mouse | det |
| 3 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 kept | xcomp |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 strings | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 strings | det |
| 8 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 running | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 lute | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lute | det |
| 11 | lute | lute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 strings | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | Meantime | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | run | gerund | Meantime not said here | the strings of the lute | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over string=Trajectory |
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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