Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 163
Then he leaves the room, under the pretext of giving an order, and Nikita takes his place.
Who acts: feather, pretext, Nikita · What happens: leave, give, take · To what, where: room, order, place
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 (feather, pretext, Nikita), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 leaves | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 leaves | nsubj |
| 3 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 room | det |
| 5 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaves | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pretext | punct |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 pretext | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pretext | det |
| 9 | pretext | pretext | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaves | conj |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 giving | mark |
| 11 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 pretext | acl |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 order | det |
| 13 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 giving | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 takes | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 takes | cc |
| 16 | Nikita | Nikita | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 takes | nsubj |
| 17 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 leaves | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 place | nmod:poss |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 takes | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leaves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present | feather | the room | then | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | gerund | the pretext not said here | a order | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | present | Nikita | feather's place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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