Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 60
[323] Then into the cottage bounded the blind man, crying to the cripple--
What happens: bound, cry · To what, where: blind man, cottage, cripple
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: 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 8 bounded | punct |
| 2 | 323 | 323 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 [ | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 323 | punct |
| 4 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 bounded | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 cottage | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cottage | det |
| 7 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bounded | obl |
| 8 | bounded | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bounded | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 crying | punct |
| 13 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 bounded | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 cripple | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cripple | det |
| 16 | cripple | cripple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crying | obl |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 bounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bound | past | the blind man | the cottage | then | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location man=Theme | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | gerund | the cripple | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to cripple=Recipient |
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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