Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 135
No sooner was Dnieper asleep than they rose up quietly, chose the best and most sloping places, and began to flow away.
Who acts: life, asleep · What happens: be, rise up, choose, slope, begin, flow away · To what, where: best
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 (life, asleep), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 asleep | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 asleep | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 asleep | cop |
| 4 | Dnieper | dniep | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 asleep | advmod |
| 5 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 chose | nsubj |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 8 rose | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 rose | nsubj |
| 8 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 chose | advcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 rose | compound:prt |
| 10 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 8 rose | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rose | punct |
| 12 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 best | det |
| 14 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 chose | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 places | cc |
| 16 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 places | amod |
| 17 | sloping | slope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 places | amod |
| 18 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 best | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 began | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 began | cc |
| 21 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 chose | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 flow | mark |
| 23 | flow | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 began | xcomp |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 flow | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 chose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | asleep, dniep, soon property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | rise up | past | life | quietly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | choose | past | no asleep | the best and most sloping places | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Theme | ||||
| 4 | slope | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | begin | past | no asleep not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | flow away | to-infinitive | no asleep not said here | away property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: 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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