Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 101
So he sent his wife home, but he himself hastened into the plain.
Who acts: brother · What happens: send, hasten · To what, where: wife, plain
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 (brother), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 sent | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obj |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 sent | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hastened | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 hastened | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hastened | nsubj |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 9 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sent | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 plain | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 plain | det |
| 14 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hastened | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | brother | brother's wife | home property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme | |||
| 2 | hasten | participle | brother | the plain | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into plain=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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