Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 154
We're expecting a bridegroom, but the confounded fellow has disappeared."
Who acts: We · What happens: expect, confound, disappear · To what, where: bridegroom, confounded fellow
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 expecting | nsubj |
| 2 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 expecting | aux |
| 3 | expecting | expect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bridegroom | det |
| 5 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 expecting | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 disappeared | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 disappeared | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fellow | det |
| 9 | confounded | confound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 fellow | amod |
| 10 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 disappeared | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 disappeared | aux |
| 12 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 expecting | parataxis |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 disappeared | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 expecting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | present · progressive | We | a bridegroom | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridegroom=Theme | ||||
| 2 | confound | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | disappear | present · perfect · passive | the confounded fellow | 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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