Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 157
In the morning the priest's son went to his lessons, and sat over his book looking ever so gloomy.
Who acts: son · What happens: go, sit, look · To what, where: lessons, book
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 priest | det |
| 5 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 priest | case |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 lessons | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lessons | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lessons | lesson | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sat | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sat | cc |
| 14 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 book | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 book | nmod:poss |
| 17 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sat | obl |
| 18 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 sat | advcl |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 gloomy | advmod |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 gloomy | advmod |
| 21 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 looking | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the priest's son | son's lessons | morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lesson=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | sit | past | the priest's son not said here | son's book | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over book=Location | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | the priest's son not said here | gloomy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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