Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 150
A regular mountain did he pile up! there was no passing by for the witch!
Who acts: regular mountain, passing · What happens: pile up, be
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 (regular mountain, passing), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 mountain | det |
| 2 | regular | regular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mountain | amod |
| 3 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pile | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pile | aux |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pile | nsubj |
| 6 | pile | pile | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 pile | compound:prt |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 pile | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pile | advcl |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 passing | det |
| 12 | passing | passing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | nsubj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 witch | case |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 witch | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 witch | det |
| 16 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 pile | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pile up | past · do-support | a regular mountain | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be | past | no passing | there | by the witch | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by witch=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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