Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 38
They travelled for one year, two years, three years, and traversed many countries.
Who acts: words · What happens: travel, traverse · To what, where: many countries
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 (words), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 travelled | nsubj |
| 2 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 year | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 year | nummod |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 travelled | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 years | punct |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 years | nummod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 travelled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 years | punct |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 years | nummod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 years | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 traversed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 traversed | cc |
| 14 | traversed | traverse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 travelled | conj |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 countries | amod |
| 16 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 traversed | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | words = word | year | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | traverse | participle | words = word not said here | many countries | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme country=Co-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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