Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 116
He went with them, making no excuses, relying on himself.
Who acts: Uncle · What happens: go, make, rely · To what, where: excuses
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 (Uncle), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 making | punct |
| 6 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 went | advcl |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 excuses | det |
| 8 | excuses | excuse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 making | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 relying | punct |
| 10 | relying | rely | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 making | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 himself | case |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 relying | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Uncle | with servants = servant | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund | Uncle not said here | no excuses | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset excuse=Product | ||||
| 3 | rely | gerund | Uncle not said here | on Uncle | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on himself=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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