Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 125
They searched and searched, they rummaged in all the corners.
Who acts: devils · What happens: search, rummage · To what, where: corners
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (devils), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 searched | nsubj |
| 2 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 searched | cc |
| 4 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 searched | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rummaged | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 rummaged | nsubj |
| 7 | rummaged | rummage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 searched | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 corners | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 corners | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 corners | det |
| 11 | corners | corner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rummaged | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 searched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | past | devils = devil | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | search | past | devils = devil not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | rummage | past | devils = devil | all corners | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent in corner=Location |
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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