Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 107
Anna the Fair went into the balcony, looked to see if all the cows were there, and ordered them to be driven into the sheds.
Who acts: Anna, cows · What happens: go, look, see, be, order, drive · To what, where: balcony, cows, sheds
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anna, cows), 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 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fair | det |
| 3 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Anna | appos |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 balcony | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 balcony | det |
| 7 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looked | punct |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 looked | xcomp |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 there | mark |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 cows | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cows | det |
| 15 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 there | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 there | cop |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 see | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ordered | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ordered | cc |
| 20 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 ordered | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 driven | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 driven | aux:pass |
| 24 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 ordered | ccomp |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 sheds | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sheds | det |
| 27 | sheds | shed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 driven | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Anna | the balcony | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into balcony=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | look | past | Anna not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | Anna not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | all cows | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | order | past | cows = cow | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | drive not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | the sheds | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: into shed=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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