Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 46
He drove by the town, but the townspeople had met together and had been looking out for him for ever so long.
Who acts: FOOL, townspeople · What happens: drive, meet, look out
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 (FOOL, townspeople), 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 drove | nsubj |
| 2 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 town | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 town | det |
| 5 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drove | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 met | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 met | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 townspeople | det |
| 9 | townspeople | townspeople | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 met | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 met | aux |
| 11 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 drove | conj |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 met | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 looking | cc |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 looking | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 looking | aux |
| 16 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 met | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 looking | compound:prt |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 looking | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 long | case |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 long | advmod |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 long | advmod |
| 23 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 looking | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | FOOL | by the town | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | meet | past · perfect | the townspeople | together property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | look out | past · perfect · progressive | the townspeople not said here | for FOOL | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for he=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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