Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 39
He entered the hut--there on a bench lay the Leshy stone dead, and by his side a damsel, exclaiming, amid bitter tears:--
Who acts: dog · What happens: enter, lie, exclaim · To what, where: hut, Leshy stone, bench, amid bitter tears
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 (dog), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hut | det |
| 4 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entered | obj |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 lay | punct |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 lay | expl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 bench | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bench | det |
| 9 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | obl |
| 10 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 entered | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stone | det |
| 12 | Leshy | Leshy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 stone | compound |
| 13 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | obj |
| 14 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lay | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 damsel | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 damsel | cc |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 side | nmod:poss |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 damsel | compound |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 damsel | det |
| 21 | damsel | damsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entered | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 exclaiming | punct |
| 23 | exclaiming | exclaim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 entered | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 tears | punct |
| 25 | amid | amid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 tears | amod |
| 26 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 tears | amod |
| 27 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 exclaiming | obj |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 entered | punct |
| 29 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | dog | the hut | a side damsel obl | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Destination | |||
| 2 | lie | past | dog not said here | the Leshy stone | a bench; there | dead property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stone=Theme | ||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | gerund | dog not said here | amid bitter tears | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tear=Topic |
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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