Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 148
One of the inhabitants of Novgorod was angling in the brook Chorny.
Who acts: Novgorod · What happens: angle · To what, where: inhabitants, brook
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 (Novgorod), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 inhabitants | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 inhabitants | det |
| 4 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 angling | mark |
| 6 | Novgorod | Novgorod | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 angling | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 angling | aux |
| 8 | angling | angle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 inhabitants | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 brook | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brook | det |
| 11 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 angling | obl |
| 12 | Chorny | Chorny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 brook | appos |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 One | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | angle | past · progressive | Novgorod | the inhabitants not said here | the brook | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location inhabitant=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/38/148/