Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 1
The dinner came to an end; the guests rose from table, and expressed their thanks to their host and hostess; and the poor man did likewise, got up from his bench, and bowed down to his girdle before his brother.
Who acts: dinner, guests, poor man · What happens: come, rise, express, do, get up, bow down · To what, where: end, table, thanks, host, bench
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dinner, guests, poor man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg22373:2720): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dinner | det |
| 2 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 end | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 end | det |
| 6 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 rose | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 guests | det |
| 9 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rose | nsubj |
| 10 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 table | case |
| 12 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rose | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 expressed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 expressed | cc |
| 15 | expressed | express | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 rose | conj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 thanks | nmod:poss |
| 17 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 expressed | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 host | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 host | nmod:poss |
| 20 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 expressed | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hostess | cc |
| 22 | hostess | hostess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 host | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 did | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 did | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 man | det |
| 26 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 man | amod |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 did | nsubj |
| 28 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 29 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 28 did | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 got | punct |
| 31 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 did | conj |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 got | compound:prt |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 bench | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 bench | nmod:poss |
| 35 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 got | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 bowed | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 bowed | cc |
| 38 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 did | conj |
| 39 | down | down | ADP | _ | 38 bowed | compound:prt |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 girdle | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 girdle | nmod:poss |
| 42 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 bowed | obl |
| 43 | before | before | ADP | _ | 45 brother | case |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 brother | nmod:poss |
| 45 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 bowed | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the dinner | to a end | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | the guests | table | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from table=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | express | past | the guests not said here | guests's thanks | guests's host and hostess | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme to host=Recipient | |||
| 4 | do | past | the poor man | likewise property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | get up | past | the poor man not said here | man's bench | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from bench=Destination | ||||
| 6 | bow down | past | the poor man not said here | before man's brother | to man's girdle | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to girdle=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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