Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 90
In it he discovers his long-lost mother, who gladly greets him, and at once takes him into Vikhor's cellar.
Who acts: Vikhor, long lost mother · What happens: discover, lose, greet, take · To what, where: long lost mother, whirlwind, Vikhor, cellar
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 (Vikhor, long lost mother), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 it | case |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 discovers | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 discovers | nsubj |
| 4 | discovers | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mother | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 long | punct |
| 8 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 mother | amod |
| 9 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 discovers | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 greets | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 greets | nsubj |
| 12 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 13 greets | advmod |
| 13 | greets | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 mother | acl:relcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 greets | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 takes | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 takes | cc |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 once | case |
| 18 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 19 takes | obl |
| 19 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 discovers | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 takes | obj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 cellar | case |
| 22 | Vikhor | Vikhor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 cellar | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 Vikhor | case |
| 24 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 takes | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 discovers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | present | Vikhor | Vikhor's long lost mother | whirlwind | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Topic | |||
| 2 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | greet speech: greet | present | Vikhor's long lost mother | Vikhor | gladly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | take | present | Vikhor not said here | Vikhor | Vikhor's cellar | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into cellar=Destination |
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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