Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 149
At length he appeared on the pine, above the heads of the girls, and said to them:
Who acts: Nearer · What happens: appear, say · To what, where: length, damsels · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nearer), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appeared | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 appeared | nsubj |
| 4 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 pine | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pine | det |
| 7 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appeared | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 heads | punct |
| 9 | above | above | ADP | _ | 11 heads | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 heads | det |
| 11 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 appeared | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 girls | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 girls | det |
| 14 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 heads | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 appeared | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | obl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | Nearer = near | length | on the pine; above the heads of the girls | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Nearer = near not said here | damsels = damsel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient |
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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