Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 105
Dnieper turned into a river, and flowed through fertile meadows and dreamy woods.
Who acts: Dnieper · What happens: turn, flow · To what, where: river, fertile meadows
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dnieper), 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 | Dnieper | Dnieper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 river | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 river | det |
| 5 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 flowed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 flowed | cc |
| 8 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 meadows | case |
| 10 | fertile | fertile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 meadows | amod |
| 11 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flowed | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 woods | cc |
| 13 | dreamy | dreamy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 woods | amod |
| 14 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 meadows | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Dnieper | a river | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into river=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | flow | past | Dnieper not said here | fertile meadows and dreamy woods | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through meadow=Location |
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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