Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 20
Well, they walked and walked till they reached a dark, dense forest.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: walk, reach · To what, where: dark dense forest
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 (eyes), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 walked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 walked | cc |
| 6 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walked | conj |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 reached | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 reached | nsubj |
| 9 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 walked | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 forest | det |
| 11 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 forest | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dark | punct |
| 13 | dense | dense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 forest | amod |
| 14 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reached | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | eyes = eye | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | walk | past | eyes = eye not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | reach | past | eyes = eye | a dark dense forest | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent forest=Theme |
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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