Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 57
Now it was winter time, and out of doors was a rattling frost.
Who acts: place · What happens: be · To what, where: winter time, rattling frost, doors
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 (place), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 time | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 time | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 4 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 time | compound |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 frost | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 frost | cc |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 doors | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 doors | case |
| 10 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 frost | obl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 frost | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 frost | det |
| 13 | rattling | rattling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 frost | compound |
| 14 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 time | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | place | winter time and a rattling frost | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | place not said here | a rattling frost | doors | 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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