Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 160
On returning sadly home he finds a horse standing by the road side, with a couple of bags slung across its back.
Who acts: moujik, horse · What happens: return, find, stand, sling · To what, where: horse, bags, back
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, horse), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 returning | mark |
| 2 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 finds | advcl |
| 3 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 2 returning | advmod |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 returning | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 finds | nsubj |
| 6 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 horse | det |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 finds | obj |
| 9 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 horse | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 side | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 side | det |
| 12 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 side | compound |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 standing | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 couple | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 couple | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 couple | det |
| 17 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 standing | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 bags | case |
| 19 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 couple | nmod |
| 20 | slung | sling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 bags | acl |
| 21 | across | across | ADP | _ | 23 back | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 back | nmod:poss |
| 23 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 slung | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 finds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | gerund | moujik not said here | home, sadly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | present | moujik | a horse | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Topic | ||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | a horse not said here | by the road side; with a couple of bags | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location | ||||
| 4 | sling | participle | bags not said here | couple's back | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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