Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 3
"When thou art in Novgorod, thou wilt meet a tall, big moujik in a plaited blue caftan, wide blue trowsers, and a high blue hat.
Who acts: thou · What happens: meet, plait · To what, where: tall big moujik, plaited blue caftan
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 (thou), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 art | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 art | advmod |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 art | nsubj |
| 4 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 meet | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Novgorod | case |
| 6 | Novgorod | Novgorod | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 art | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 art | punct |
| 8 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 meet | nsubj |
| 9 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 10 meet | aux |
| 10 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 moujik | det |
| 12 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 moujik | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tall | punct |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 moujik | amod |
| 15 | moujik | moujik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 meet | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 caftan | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 caftan | det |
| 18 | plaited | plait | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 caftan | amod |
| 19 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 caftan | amod |
| 20 | caftan | caftan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 meet | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 trowsers | punct |
| 22 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 trowsers | amod |
| 23 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 trowsers | amod |
| 24 | trowsers | trowser | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 caftan | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 hat | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 hat | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 hat | det |
| 28 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 hat | amod |
| 29 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 hat | amod |
| 30 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 caftan | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 meet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet in a quote | future | thou | a tall big moujik | a plaited blue caftan and wide blue trowsers and a high blue hat | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moujik=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | plait in a quote | participle | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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