Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 63
By-and-by the sheep came home from afield, and she drove them into her cottage for the night.
Who acts: sheep · What happens: come, drive · To what, where: afield, eyes, cottage
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 (sheep), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 - | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 sheep | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sheep | det |
| 7 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 afield | case |
| 11 | afield | afield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 drove | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 drove | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 drove | nsubj |
| 15 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 drove | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 cottage | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 cottage | nmod:poss |
| 19 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drove | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 night | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 night | det |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drove | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | afield | by the sheep; home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from afield=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | drive | past | sheep | eyes = eye | sheep's cottage | night | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme into cottage=Trajectory |
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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