Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 140

Every day he went afield with the herd at early morn, and in the evening he drove them back to the royal yard.

Who acts: Ivan · What happens: go, drive back · To what, where: cows

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 (Ivan), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	afield	afield	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	xcomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 herd	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 herd	det
8	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 morn	case
10	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 morn	amod
11	morn	morn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 herd	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 drove	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 drove	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 evening	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 evening	det
16	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drove	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 drove	nsubj
18	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 drove	obj
20	back	back	ADV	_	18 drove	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 yard	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 yard	det
23	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 yard	amod
24	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drove	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Ivan				day	with the herd at early morn; afield property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with herd=Beneficiary
2	drive back	past	Ivan	cows = cow			evening	to the royal yard	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme to yard=Trajectory

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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