Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 11
So he went and had a goodish drink, and then started in search of evil.
Who acts: evil · What happens: go, have, start, search · To what, where: goodish drink, search, evil
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evil), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 had | cc |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 drink | det |
| 7 | goodish | goodish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 drink | amod |
| 8 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 started | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 started | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 started | advmod |
| 12 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 search | case |
| 14 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 started | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 evil | case |
| 16 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 search | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | evil | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | evil not said here | a goodish drink | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient | ||||
| 3 | start | past | evil not said here | search of evil | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | search | evil | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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