Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 23
It was night; there was nowhere else to go to. "
Who acts: path · What happens: be, go · To what, where: night
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 (path), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 night | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 night | cop |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 was | punct |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 night | acl:relcl |
| 7 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 was | advmod |
| 8 | else | else | ADV | _ | 7 nowhere | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 was | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 go | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 night | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 night | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | path | night | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | path not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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