Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 34
Then the sportsman guessed that he had before him no mere moujik, but a Leshy.
Who acts: sportsman · What happens: guess, have · To what, where: mere moujik · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sportsman), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 guessed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sportsman | det |
| 3 | sportsman | sportsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guessed | nsubj |
| 4 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 had | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 guessed | ccomp |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 had | obl |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 moujik | det |
| 11 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 moujik | amod |
| 12 | moujik | moujik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Leshy | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 Leshy | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 Leshy | det |
| 16 | Leshy | Leshy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 guessed | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 guessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | past | the sportsman | then | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | sportsman | no mere moujik | before devil | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moujik=Patient |
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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