Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 21

In it they found a small path, and along it they went--along the narrow path.

Who acts: eyes · What happens: find, go · To what, where: small path, 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 it	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 path	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 path	amod
7	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
10	along	along	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	obl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	conj
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 path	punct
15	along	along	ADP	_	18 path	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 path	det
17	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 path	amod
18	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	eyes = eye	a small path		forest			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Topic
2	go	past	eyes = eye			forest		along the narrow path	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme along it=Initial_Location along path=Destination

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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