Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 62
For nine days he watches the fair band of Amazons as they ramble about.
Who acts: Prince, Amazons · What happens: watch, ramble · To what, where: fair band
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, Amazons), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 watches | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 watches | nsubj |
| 5 | watches | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 band | det |
| 7 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 band | amod |
| 8 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 watches | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Amazons | case |
| 10 | Amazons | amazon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 band | nmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 ramble | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ramble | nsubj |
| 13 | ramble | ramble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 watches | advcl |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 ramble | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 watches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | present | Prince | the fair band of Amazons | day | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Theme | |||
| 2 | ramble | present | Amazons = amazon | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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