Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 141
But when he came within a few versts of the sea-shore, his anger calmed down and he disappeared in the sea.
Who acts: trace, anger · What happens: come, calm down, disappear, anger · To what, where: sea
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 (trace, anger), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 calmed | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 calmed | advcl |
| 5 | within | within | ADP | _ | 8 versts | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 versts | det |
| 7 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 versts | amod |
| 8 | versts | verst | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 shore | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shore | det |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shore | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 sea | punct |
| 13 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 versts | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 anger | nmod:poss |
| 16 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 calmed | nsubj |
| 17 | calmed | calm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 calmed | compound:prt |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 disappeared | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 disappeared | nsubj |
| 21 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 calmed | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 sea | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sea | det |
| 24 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 disappeared | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 calmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | trace | within a few versts of the sea shore | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | calm down | participle | trace's anger | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | disappear | past | trace | the sea | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | anger | trace | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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