Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 22
They walked and walked along the path, and at last they saw a large cottage standing before them.
Who acts: eyes, large cottage · What happens: walk, see, stand · To what, where: path, large cottage, last
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, large cottage), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 walked | cc |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 5 | along | along | ADP | _ | 7 path | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 path | det |
| 7 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 last | case |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 saw | obl |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cottage | det |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cottage | amod |
| 16 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 17 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 cottage | acl |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 standing | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 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 | the path | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along path=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | see | past | eyes = eye | a large cottage | last | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cottage=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | stand | gerund | a large cottage not said here | before eyes = eye | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before they=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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