Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 159
The moujik follows the advice of Need, but meets with a cold reception at his brother's.
Who acts: moujik · What happens: follow, meet · To what, where: advice
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 (moujik), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 moujik | det |
| 2 | moujik | moujik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 follows | nsubj |
| 3 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 advice | det |
| 5 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 follows | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Need | case |
| 7 | Need | Need | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 advice | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 meets | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 meets | cc |
| 10 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 follows | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 reception | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 reception | det |
| 13 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 reception | amod |
| 14 | reception | reception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 meets | obl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 brother | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 brother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 meets | obl |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 brother | case |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 follows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present | the moujik | the advice of Need | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | present | the moujik not said here | with a cold reception; at moujik's brother | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with reception=Co-Agent |
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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