Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 75
After a time, he reached the forest, turned off from the road; and drove across the frozen snow.
Who acts: man · What happens: reach, turn off, drive, freeze · To what, where: forest, road, frozen snow
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 (man), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 reached | nsubj |
| 6 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 forest | det |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 turned | punct |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reached | conj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 turned | compound:prt |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 road | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 road | det |
| 14 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 drove | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 drove | cc |
| 17 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reached | conj |
| 18 | across | across | ADP | _ | 21 snow | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 snow | det |
| 20 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 snow | amod |
| 21 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drove | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | man | the forest | time | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent forest=Theme | |||
| 2 | turn off | past | man not said here | the road | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | drive | past | man not said here | the frozen snow | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across snow=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | freeze | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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