Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 98
The next day arrived; the time drew near for going to the wedding.
Who acts: next day, time · What happens: arrive, draw, go · To what, where: wedding
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 (next day, time), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 drew | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drew | nsubj |
| 8 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arrived | conj |
| 9 | near | near | ADV | _ | 8 drew | advmod |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 going | mark |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 drew | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 wedding | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wedding | det |
| 14 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 going | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the next day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | draw | past | the time | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | the time not said here | the wedding | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wedding=Initial_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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