Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 32
He runs after the stranger and cries, "Stop, brother! that field isn't mine, but my niece Militsa's," whereupon the fire goes out and the crop is saved.
Who acts: man, field, niece · What happens: run, cry, stop, not be, go out, save · To what, where: brother, man, crop · Speech: someone speaks here
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, field, niece), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 runs | nsubj |
| 2 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 stranger | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stranger | det |
| 5 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 runs | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cries | cc |
| 7 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 runs | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Stop | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Stop | punct |
| 10 | Stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cries | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 brother | punct |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Stop | obl |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 mine | punct |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 field | det |
| 15 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mine | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 mine | cop |
| 17 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 mine | advmod |
| 18 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Stop | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 goes | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 goes | cc |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 niece | nmod:poss |
| 22 | niece | niece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 goes | nsubj |
| 23 | Militsa | Militsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 niece | appos |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 Militsa | case |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 goes | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 goes | punct |
| 27 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 goes | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 fire | det |
| 29 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 goes | nsubj |
| 30 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 runs | parataxis |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 goes | compound:prt |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 saved | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 crop | det |
| 34 | crop | crop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 saved | aux:pass |
| 36 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 goes | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 runs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | man | after the stranger | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | present | man not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stop in a quote | infinitive | brother | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | not is a in a quote | present | that field | man | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go out | present | my niece | whereupon property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | save | present · passive | the crop | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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