Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 73
But during the night Vazuza rose silently, fled away from Volga, chose the nearest and the straightest line, and flowed away.
Who acts: Vazuza · What happens: rise, flee away, choose, flow away · To what, where: Volga, nearest
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 (Vazuza), 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 | _ | 9 fled | cc |
| 2 | during | during | ADP | _ | 6 rose | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 night | det |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | Vazuza | Vazuza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | nsubj |
| 6 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fled | advcl |
| 7 | silently | silently | ADV | _ | 6 rose | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rose | punct |
| 9 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 fled | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 Volga | case |
| 12 | Volga | Volga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 fled | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 chose | punct |
| 14 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fled | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 nearest | det |
| 16 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 chose | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 line | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 line | det |
| 19 | straightest | straight | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 line | amod |
| 20 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 nearest | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 flowed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 flowed | cc |
| 23 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fled | conj |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 flowed | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | Vazuza | night | silently property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | flee away | past | Volga | away property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from volga=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | choose | past | the nearest and the straightest line | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent near=Theme | |||||
| 4 | flow away | past | away property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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.
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