Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 98

Sozh was of a boisterous turn, and went roving about the forests, the hills, and the plains; but Dnieper was remarkably sweet-tempered, and he spent all his time at home, and was his mother's favorite.

Who acts: Sozh, boisterous turn, Dnieper · What happens: be, go, rove, temper, spend · To what, where: plains, Dnieper, home, favorite

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 (Sozh, boisterous turn, Dnieper), 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	Sozh	Sozh	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 turn	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 turn	cop
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 turn	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 turn	det
5	boisterous	boisterous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 turn	amod
6	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 turn	acl:relcl
10	roving	rove	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 went	xcomp
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 forests	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 forests	det
13	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 roving	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hills	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hills	det
16	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 forests	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 plains	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 plains	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 plains	det
20	plains	plain	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 roving	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 tempered	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 tempered	cc
23	Dnieper	Dnieper	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 tempered	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 tempered	aux:pass
25	remarkably	remarkably	ADV	_	28 tempered	advmod
26	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tempered	amod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 sweet	punct
28	tempered	temper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 turn	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 spent	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 spent	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 spent	nsubj
32	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 tempered	conj
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 time	det:predet
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 time	nmod:poss
35	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 spent	obj
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 home	case
37	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 spent	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 favorite	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 favorite	cc
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 favorite	cop
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 mother	nmod:poss
42	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 favorite	nmod:poss
43	's	's	PART	_	42 mother	case
44	favorite	favorite	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 spent	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Sozh				of a boisterous turn	tree rules
2	go	past	a boisterous turn not said here					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	rove	gerund	a boisterous turn not said here	the plains			about the forests and the hills	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about forest=Trajectory
4	temper	past · passive		Dnieper			remarkably property	tree rules
5	spend	past	Dnieper		home	time		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past		Dnieper's mother's favorite				tree rules

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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