Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 30
One day, as he is gazing at a splendid field of corn, a stranger asks him to whom it belongs.
Who acts: man, stranger · What happens: gaze, ask, belong · To what, where: One day, splendid field, man
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, stranger), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 asks | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gazing | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 gazing | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gazing | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 gazing | aux |
| 7 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 day | acl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 field | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 field | det |
| 10 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 field | amod |
| 11 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gazing | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 corn | case |
| 13 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 field | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 stranger | det |
| 16 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 asks | nsubj |
| 17 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 asks | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 whom | case |
| 20 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 asks | obl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 belongs | nsubj |
| 22 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 whom | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | present · progressive | man | One day not said here | a splendid field of corn | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | a stranger | man | day | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | belong | present | stranger | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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