Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 72
One day, when he was twelve years old, he went into the stable to see a groom who was a great friend of his.
Who acts: Ivan, groom · What happens: be, go, see · To what, where: stable, groom, great friend
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 (Ivan, groom), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 old | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 old | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 old | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 old | cop |
| 7 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 years | nummod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 old | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 old | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 stable | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stable | det |
| 15 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 went | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 groom | det |
| 19 | groom | groom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obj |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 friend | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 friend | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 friend | det |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 friend | amod |
| 24 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 groom | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 his | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 friend | nmod:poss |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Ivan | day; year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | past | Ivan | the stable | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into stable=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | Ivan not said here | a groom and Ivan's great friend | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer groom=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | a groom and Ivan's great friend | Ivan's great friend | tree rules |
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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