Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 71
In some places the villagers go to bed early on Friday evening, believing that "St. Pyatinka" will punish all whom she finds awake when she roams through the cottage.
Who acts: villagers, Pyatinka · What happens: go, believe, punish, find, roam · To what, where: places, all, cottage · 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 (villagers, Pyatinka), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 places | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 places | det |
| 3 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 go | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 villagers | det |
| 5 | villagers | villager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 go | nsubj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 bed | case |
| 8 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 9 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 go | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 evening | case |
| 11 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 evening | compound |
| 12 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 believing | punct |
| 14 | believing | believe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 go | advcl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 punish | mark |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Pyatinka | punct |
| 17 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Pyatinka | nmod:desc |
| 18 | Pyatinka | Pyatinka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 punish | nsubj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Pyatinka | punct |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 punish | aux |
| 21 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 believing | ccomp |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 punish | obj |
| 23 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 finds | obj |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 finds | nsubj |
| 25 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 all | conj |
| 26 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 finds | xcomp |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 roams | advmod |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 roams | nsubj |
| 29 | roams | roam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 finds | conj |
| 30 | through | through | ADP | _ | 32 cottage | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 cottage | det |
| 32 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 roams | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | the villagers | some places | evening | to bed; early property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | believe | gerund | the villagers not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | punish | future | Pyatinka St. | all | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Patient | ||||
| 4 | find | present | Pyatinka | awake property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Topic | ||||
| 5 | roam | present | Pyatinka | the cottage | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through cottage=Trajectory |
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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