Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 98
Late one evening, a Cossack rode into a village, pulled up at its last cottage, and cried--
Who acts: Cossack · What happens: ride, pull up, cry · To what, where: village
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 (Cossack), 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 | Late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 evening | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 evening | nummod |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rode | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 evening | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Cossack | det |
| 6 | Cossack | cossack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rode | nsubj |
| 7 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 village | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 village | det |
| 10 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rode | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pulled | punct |
| 12 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 village | acl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 pulled | compound:prt |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 cottage | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 cottage | nmod:poss |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cottage | amod |
| 17 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pulled | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cried | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 cried | cc |
| 20 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rode | conj |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | a Cossack | a village | evening | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into village=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | pull up | participle | a village not said here | at Cossack's last cottage | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at cottage=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | a Cossack not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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