Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 2
The guests drove off homewards, full of drink and merriment, shouting, singing songs.
Who acts: guests · What happens: drive off, shout, sing · To what, where: homewards, songs
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 (guests), 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 guests | det |
| 2 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drove | nsubj |
| 3 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 drove | compound:prt |
| 5 | homewards | homeward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drove | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 full | punct |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 homewards | amod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 drink | case |
| 9 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 full | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 merriment | cc |
| 11 | merriment | merriment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drink | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shouting | punct |
| 13 | shouting | shout | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 drove | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 singing | punct |
| 15 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 shouting | conj |
| 16 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 singing | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive off | past | the guests | homewards | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homeward=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | gerund | the guests not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | the guests not said here | songs | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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