Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 38
So the peasant goes into the forest and, after wandering about for some time, lights upon a path which leads him to a cottage made of ice, covered with snow, and hung with icicles.
Who acts: peasant, path · What happens: go, wonder, lead, make, cover, hang · To what, where: forest, dog, cottage, ice
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant, path), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 goes | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 peasant | det |
| 3 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | nsubj |
| 4 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 forest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forest | det |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wandering | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wandering | punct |
| 10 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 11 wandering | mark |
| 11 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 goes | conj |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 wandering | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wandering | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lights | punct |
| 17 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 time | conj |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 path | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 path | det |
| 20 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 time | nmod |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 leads | nsubj |
| 22 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 path | acl:relcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 leads | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 cottage | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 cottage | det |
| 26 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 leads | obl |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 cottage | acl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 ice | case |
| 29 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 made | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 covered | punct |
| 31 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 ice | acl |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 snow | case |
| 33 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 covered | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 hung | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 hung | cc |
| 36 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 goes | parataxis |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 icicles | case |
| 38 | icicles | icicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 hung | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | the peasant | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | the peasant not said here | time | about property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | lead | present | a path | dog | a cottage | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to cottage=Destination | |||
| 4 | make | participle | a cottage not said here | of ice | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 5 | cover | participle | ice not said here | with snow | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with snow=Theme | ||||
| 6 | hang | participle | with icicles | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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