Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 84
After a time he went into the town to invite his brother and sister-in-law to spend his name-day with him.
Who acts: peasant, brother · What happens: go, invite, spend · To what, where: town, brother
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 (peasant, 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 town | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 town | det |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 invite | mark |
| 10 | invite | invite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 invite | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 law | cc |
| 14 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 law | nsubj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 law | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 law | case |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 in | punct |
| 18 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brother | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 spend | mark |
| 20 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 invite | xcomp |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 day | nmod:poss |
| 22 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 day | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 name | punct |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spend | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 spend | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | peasant | the town | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | invite | to-infinitive | peasant not said here | peasant's brother and law | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | spend not said to happen | to-infinitive | peasant's brother and law not said here | day | with peasant | vn consume-66-1 «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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