Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 108
So the bride and bridegroom were married, and then they began to move out of the church, holding each other by the hand.
Who acts: people · What happens: marry, begin, move out, hold · To what, where: bride, church, each
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | _ | 7 married | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bride | det |
| 3 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 married | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bridegroom | cc |
| 5 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bride | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 married | aux:pass |
| 7 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 began | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 began | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 began | nsubj |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 married | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 move | mark |
| 14 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 began | xcomp |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 church | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 church | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 church | det |
| 18 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 move | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 holding | punct |
| 20 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 began | advcl |
| 21 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 20 holding | obj |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 each | fixed |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 hand | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hand | det |
| 25 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 holding | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · passive | the bride and bridegroom | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | people | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | move out | to-infinitive | people not said here | the church | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent church=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hold | gerund | people not said here | each | by the hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent each=Theme by hand=Location |
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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