Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 141
Lo and behold! not a soul was there, nothing but the mouse bolting into its hole!
Who acts: soul · What happens: be, bolt · To what, where: hole
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 (soul), 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 | Lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 9 there | discourse |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 behold | cc |
| 3 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 1 Lo | conj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lo | punct |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 soul | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 soul | det |
| 7 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 there | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 there | cop |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 there | punct |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 there | obl |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 mouse | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mouse | det |
| 14 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nothing | conj |
| 15 | bolting | bolt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 nothing | acl |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 hole | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hole | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bolting | obl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a soul | nothing obl; there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bolt | gerund | soul's hole | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hole=Initial_Location |
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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