Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 23
Now in the village in which her parents dwelt there lived a bold hunter, who went daily roaming through the thick woods with his dog and his gun.
Who acts: parents, village, bold hunter · What happens: dwell, live, go, roam · To what, where: village, bold hunter, thick woods
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 (parents, village, bold hunter), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 village | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 village | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 village | det |
| 4 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 dwelt | obl |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 parents | nmod:poss |
| 8 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dwelt | nsubj |
| 9 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 village | acl:relcl |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 dwelt | advmod |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hunter | det |
| 13 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hunter | amod |
| 14 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 hunter | acl:relcl |
| 18 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | roaming | roam | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 went | advcl |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 woods | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 woods | det |
| 22 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 woods | amod |
| 23 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 roaming | obl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 dog | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 dog | nmod:poss |
| 26 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 roaming | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 gun | cc |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 gun | nmod:poss |
| 29 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | village's parents | the village; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | ||||
| 2 | live | past | the village | a bold hunter | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme hunter=Location | ||||
| 3 | go | past | a bold hunter | daily property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | roam | gerund | a bold hunter not said here | the thick woods | with LESHY's dog | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=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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